A woman nearly died today. She was in the shampoo aisle of her local grocery store when she had a caridac episode. She slumped up against her shopping cart, stumbled to the back of the aisle where she came to a stop when he cart wedged under the counter. For ten minutes, she was standing there, in and out of consciousness, supported only by her arm being caught in her cart. During this ten minutes span, six people walked past this woman. Six people stepped within five feet of a woman who was dying. Six people did nothing to help her. Six people did not even acknowledge her existence. Luckily, there were seven people who walked by.
What has happened to us? What does this say about us as a society? Is this the best we can do?
How is it that six people can walk past a person and not respond to their distress? Are we really that broken as a society? Have we all become so self centered that we didn't notice a dying woman? Or did we notice and just not care?
Obviously I'm disgusted by this turn of events. I had such high hopes for humanity. Unfortunately most of humanity isn't living up to those expectations. We have to come together or we are going to fall apart.
Stop for a moment, and be a human.
