Someone's Watching Over Us

Yesterday, a few orchestrated coincidences happened. At a volunteer service in my university, I worked a shift I signed up just a few days ago. I haven't been working for them for a month, but I suddenly had the urge to sign up that day. I qualify to work for two positions there. One of a manager type and one of a worker type. Normally, I sign up for manager type, but not yesterday.

At first, it seemed like just another typical shift with the manager looking for someone to replace another worker who didn't show up. This service shares an office with another service that provides first aid. The volunteers of the other service don't always stay in the office, but they did yesterday.

All of a sudden, the manager of our service had a medical emergency. The volunteers of the other service, of course, kicked into action and provided first aid. As for me, I immediately took over as the manager. The person seemed to be okay at first, so the other service wanted the person to get some rest, and so that was what happened. It so happened that the executive on call for emergencies for our service was not reachable yesterday, so I dragged in another one.

However, before the exec arrived, the volunteers of the other service needed to leave for other reasons. At the time, the person in trouble seemed fine, so they left. A little bit later, however, the person didn't feel so good. I was about to walk out of the office to look for the volunteers, when one of them returned. Shortly after, the rest of them returned too. Once again, they took care of the person. At the same time, I cleared the office of people so they can do their work. The executive showed up afterwards and took over as manager. The person seemed okay afterwards, and returned home with friends.

What is remarkable is the amount of coincidences that took place. If I wasn't there, no one can take over so quickly. With the added difficulties, the other workers would have trouble handling the situations. If volunteers of the other service wasn't there at first, the person probably would not receive the care needed so soon. Later on, the volunteers returned just as I figured out the person needed help again. It looks like someone was watching over us, especially the person in trouble. The person had no history of the problem. It could be a lot worse had the person been alone somewhere else.