My husband and I went to dinner at a restaurant in Vestal not long ago and the wait to get in was ridiculously long. As we stood, waiting for our name to be called, I saw a woman who must have been eight months pregnant. She had a toddler with her and was also waiting to get in. And she was standing.

I could tell by watching the woman that she was obviously tired and aching and yet the people sitting on the benches couldn't be bothered to stand up and offer her a seat and I was so angry that I could feel myself start to get hot. I kept giving her sympathetic looks until I couldn't take it anymore and walked up to some young people and asked if they'd please get up so that the pregnant woman could have a seat. They scoffed at me, but stood up and the woman mouthed a silent thank you to me.

I thought that it was an unspoken rule of basic kindness and humanity that if there is an elderly, sick, disabled or pregnant person in your presence and you're sitting but they're not, that you offer them your seat. Silly me. Our world has become selfish and that makes me mad.

I know what it's like to be 'out to here' pregnant with swollen everything and aching body and absolutely starving and have to stand because nobody was polite enough to offer me their seat. I wasn't very vocal when I was pregnant, but I guess something inside of me changed after my son was born because I now have no problem politely calling people out for not offering their seat to the elderly, pregnant or handicapped.

The problem of people not giving up their seats isn't happening just here in America- it's happening across the world, too. As a matter of fact, a new campaign in South Korea is reminding commuters to give their seats to pregnant women.

The Pink Light Campaign gives special, high-tech signal chips to pregnant women to carry around with them. When a woman carrying the signal chip enters a train car, it activates a pink light next to a special courtesy seat which then alerts the person sitting in the seat that a pregnant woman has entered the train and is standing. The light stays on until the woman has found a seat.

Please, don't bother to come at me with comments about how a pregnant woman shouldn't get preferential treatment because she decided to get pregnant and you didn't. It's about kindness, understanding and compassion whether the person is a pregnant woman, elderly, or handicapped. Maybe if our world had more tenderness and love, it'd be a less terrifying place.

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