Of heroes and real heroes

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Who among you was always the first to answer the teacher? Sometimes with a snap of the fingers, so that he would have mercy and not take anyone out of the class who had nothing to say. The answer burned on the tongue, all the finger snapping didn't help, the stamp of the nerd was stamped on him. The teacher didn't take him after all, but the hidden clueless one in the back row.

A Hymn to the First Responders

This species called themselves class representatives, the mouthpiece of all, or because no one else wanted to play this role voluntarily. How good that they existed - they saved many a school day and the arbitrariness of an angry caretaker in the open, actually closed gym!


First responders are everywhere, at the club, at work, at parents' evening and even at the market: there are people who always respond faster than others and are there to help before you can even think of needing help. Sometimes you take over the word unsolicited, lecturing or even claiming. But most of the time they are right and save you from embarrassment. Guided by their nature, their thirst for knowledge and sharing.


How good they are, the first responders!

They make our existence so much easier and help in the immediate vicinity when your existence threatens to collapse into nothingness: first responders are the people who are equipped with defibrillators and trained as emergency helpers who run even before the rescue service can arrive. They operate in networks and are near you when your life threatens to stop at a heartbeat. The large networks are located in the cantons of Ticino and Bern. Thanks to them, the network of defibrillators and first aiders is also becoming denser. They are on the scene before the average 10 minutes until an ambulance arrives for first aid. These are private people whose address we do not need to know, the main thing is that they are close by. Many survivors owe their lives to them - and we have the grateful certainty that a first responder can also help in our own fight for survival.


Meaningful question at the end:

Why am I not a first responder yet?
Does it just seem that way, or is it: first responders are in the majority when it comes to the big mouth - so why aren't there more first responders with the saving surge?