The world is a crazy place.
Someone I know very well had a little 'dizzy spell' over the weekend and collapsed in the street.
He was with his wife and two young kids and sadly not one person stopped to ask if they needed help! People walked and drove past without a second glance. The even more annoying thing is that both of these people would be first in line to aid or assist anyone.
What is wrong with everyone?
I know in this day and age a lot of us are afraid to interfere in case of reprisal for not minding our own business but to walk past someone in distress who is lying on the ground is taking it a bit too far I reckon.
I also heard another story recently where a female friend of mine came across a little girl in distress outside a dept store in town. She knelt down to talk to the little girl and see what was wrong.
About a minute later a middle aged man came up to her and said he had just followed this little girl who was obviously lost, from one end of the town to the other but was terrified to approach her in case he was accused of something.
He didn't want to let her out of his sight in case something happened to her and hoped a woman would eventually would stop to assist.
He said most people had completely ignored her even though she was quite young and obviously very upset. They all just walked right past focused on their own lives.
Eventually my friend and the man found the mother of the little girl.
She grabbed the little girl, started screaming at her for wandering off and didn't utter as much as a thank you to the two rescuers.
It wasn't always like this. Has political correctness gone overboard and people are actually afraid to get involved or is it just that no one cares anymore?
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