As I tiredly sat on the train, earphones in ears, head down and trying to soak up my hour of solitude, I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder. Here I was thinking ” Please God don’t let it be someone I know and have to converse with” (yes, It was rude, but it had been a long day at uni), when I turn around to see a fragile old man with the biggest smile asking me if I could help him make a phone call from his iphone. After I dialed the number he so laboriously dictated ,I heard a non sympathetic pre recorded voice: ” You have insufficient credit to make this call”. The confused look on this man’s face was perhaps the cutest thing I’d ever seen. I simply offered my phone which he continued, for the rest of the 45 minute train ride to thank me for. After a surprisingly comical and fascinating conversation,  the man once again thanked me for offering my iphone and got off at his stop. As cheesy as it sounds, I remained smiling for the rest of my journey as I pondered over the fact that I, in doing nothing but offering my phone to which I had unlimited calls, saved the kind man from the tedious 2 hour walk home from the station. It’s weird how little things we do can equate to enormous things in the eyes of others. Having gone home and been distracted by other things, I was taken back to this speculation when I received a message from the mans daughter thanking me so appreciatively for helping her dad out. I don’t want to offer you a sappy and over-sentimental moral to this story.. I just want to point out how easy and often rewarding it is to help people out, even when you think you’re doing nothing at all.