Always Appreciate The Stranger Who Is There For You

Last year while I was traveling through Europe blindly, not knowing a single person or where I would stay, amazing strangers opened up their homes and lives to me in beautiful acts of kindness. The most memorable of strangers was French activist and We Are Change Paris member Joel Boujassy.

Joel taught me an important message about life in the 2 weeks I spent with him. It does not matter how small your apartment is or how little money you have. What matters most is the company you keep and the attitude you have.

Joel may have not been a well known figure throughout the movement, but the person he was deserves as much respect and tribute as anyone else.

http://twitter.com/lukewearechange

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[DustinDolby]

Can anyone ID the camera he's using?

[wearechange]

canon 60d with 28mm f1.8 lens

[Z3912]

I fucking cried! I was like, why cant every human in the world be like him? Why are so many humans so greedy? I fucking wish I once had met him...

[leoportalcompany]

He got aggressed in the street and got hurt his lung...

[Shepsu Tera Netchebmaa]

Wow! This is what it's all about!

[Fredrick Hammarstone]

After you stop watching TV for a wile then after a few weeks start watching again you can pick out every single subliminal message and all the lies in the news. I hate TV and yes I would love to start eating organic. I am 18 and I hope to see my country successful again and with a real president one like Kennedy or Washington not a puppet.

[HerosComment]

I can't believe you were the last people he seen, are you sure his death was on the up and up, did anything else happen to him besides a natural death? This is all so weird and GOD I hate to hear this kind of stuff happening to the good ones. You are a lucky man Luke, stay healthy my friend.

[HerosComment]

All kidding aside, OMFG I just heard while I was typing this comment, I did not wait and was gonna say he sounded like good people and I am so very sad to hear he passed. RIP Our fellow friend of FREEDOM...

[CindyPear328]

well asthma is very sneaky. you have it forever. and even when you feel like you've grown out of it (like not having as much weezing or attacks all together) it can be triggered very easily, in any way. and sometimes, it could be fatal :(