You've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette

In an eggs-traordinary gesture, the Australian teen dubbed 'Egg Boy' for smashing an egg on the head of a controversial far-right senator, has donated A $100,000 (Dh250,000) to support the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks. A quick flashback: Will Connolly gained global fame in March after 'egging' Australian Senator Fraser Anning at a news conference when the latter blamed the mosque massacre on Muslim immigration policies. Anning turned around and punched the teen in the face and later pressed charges against him.
In what many see as divine justice, Anning, who was censured (but not expelled) by the Senate at the time for his "inflammatory and divisive" comments, lost his seat in the parliament in the recent elections. Not just that, public sentiment for the teen gained enough traction to secure an equivalent of a quarter of a million dirhams in donations through two GoFundMe pages that were set up to cover his legal expenses and "buy more eggs". And since a law firm (Gordon Legal) decided to fight Connolly's case pro bono, the money was his to spend the way he chose to.
And what a way he chose.
Two-and-a-half months after the attacks, Connolly has donated the entire amount thus collected to the Christchurch Foundation and the Victim Support Fund, which has reportedly collected about A$11 million so far. "It wasn't mine to keep ," Connolly wrote in his Insta post. In a world that is getting increasingly polarised and self-centred, a teen's selfless act once again highlights that humanity is still not dead and that it will remain in the hearts and souls of people like him. It's alive in the little child who picks up an injured bird in the park and the runner who gives up his win to help an injured competitor. And it's alive in the Muslim waitress who serves food to others even as she's fasting from dawn to dusk during the holy month of Ramadan.
The donation was a great way to bring the focus back on terror victims. What the teen earlier did - 'egging' - wasn't the most appropriate way to highlight the bias, but we're glad the omelette thus made is a noble one.