Will my apathy and lack of respect for others mold me into a monster? Would i become like “them?” If i retain my empathy and sympathy for others…does that make me something other than human…since by societal standards…no one gives a shit about other people anymore?
I watch people daily…not notice what they do to others by simply doing nothing. How often we let an elevator close..as a friend reiterated in his comment…what about a crying child? Would we stop and ask if they need help, or is that social taboo now, with all the danger children are in from strangers and malicious individuals?
i was at QT the other day…a teenage girl was alone, had the hood of her car opened, and was adding fluid of some sort, though i didn’t notice which. the roads were icy, it was freezing outside, no one seemed to even notice. as i walked by, i felt i should ask if she needed any help with anything, and yet, by some censored tongue, things were whispered in my brain that i’ll be seen as aggressive or dangerous for offering any type of polite gesture. i ignored it. i asked casually as i walked by, “do you need any help?” she turned and gave a less than honest smile, and simply said “no thanks.”
did she really think it courteous of me to ask? or did she simply, like the rest of the world, think that i was being manipulative and asking for my own self-gain and as a way to gain her trust to simply use it against her and endanger her?