Mother Theresa said once, "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference." (something to that effect, I heard it first in Chinese and I'm translating it) Do you think that is true? If you are indifferent, you do not love. Makes sense to me.
If you were driving on the road and you see a car in front of you spin out of control and then land on the side bank,would you stop and see how the driver is? Would you try to help? The way I see it, there are only two course of action in this scenario. You stay or you walk. If you walk however there are usually at least tthree different reasons. One is, you don't really care, you think you won't be much help anyway, plus you have to get to work or you will be late, even if you are late everyday anyway. All manners of excuses can rise up to make you think you don't need to stop. A second reason could be that you were scared. You're scared to confront and face the situation. If the person is badly injured, it could be a gory affair, blood guts and nastiness. You don't want to get your hands dirty. Third possibility, if you've been raised in a psycho-paranoid household like I was and "bad people who want to do bad things to girls lurk everywhere" mentality was hammered into your impressionable brain at a young age, what if the driver of that vehicle harbored serious mental illness?
Btw, it didn't happen to me. It happened to someone I know, but that person essentially walked away. I wasn't so happy at first, but I admit I was a bit quick to judge too.
5 comments:
Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. This is what separates the heros from the losers.
Jason - are you a hero or are you a loser?
Viola - that's what I would do, but then that person happened to not have a cell phone at the time
Robin is the ultimate hero. Next to Batman.
Emily, will you get me a PS3?
that's called evading the question, i believe.
what is a PS3?
nevermind, i figured it out
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