Sometimes life shows you just how, much as you might think you're hard done by, there are people worse off than you.

As I write, I'm in Cherry Creek Mall. Just minutes ago, I was in one of the glass lifts, descending to the lower level. The guy next to me, facing the glass, says "oh crap!". I look at what he's looking at. At first I see the long line of children waiting to visit Santa. Then, I focus on far more chilling site.

Below us, in front of the queue for Santa's Grotto (or whatever it's called in the US), is a man, lying on his back with policeman and paramedics around him, an intravenous drip in his arm, and one large paramedic pounding at his chest, giving him CPR.

He's fighting for his life, whilst all around him, perfectly healthy people are rudely pushing past each other, snatching things off shelves, that other people are looking at, all as if their lives depended on it.

Looking at the big picture, from above in that glass elevator, their lives don't.

Update
ONLY hit the 'read more' link if you want to know what the outcome for the man was.

Since I started writing this, a man next to me, co-incidentally another Briton, has told me that he believed that man with the heart attack died.

He also tells me that he watched as for a good 10-15 minutes, no-one including the mall staff, gave the man any CPR.

However, I have just found a member of the mall's security team, and after assuring him that I wasn't a member of the press, interviewed him briefly. The man did survive and is now making a safe recovery in hospital. He went on to tell me about all the medical training they have, and about the paramedics getting there in good time.