Do you ever get the feeling that people look straight through you?
No this is not one of my "I'm so pathetic" blogs or my "I'm mad off at the world" blogs. This is just me being contemplative. Which is a shock.
What I mean by "straight through you" is that they just don't see you. For whatever reason, they don't realize that you are there. There are billions of people on this planet and not one of them pay attention to anyone else that isn't in their own little world (friends, family) but if I think about it, even then they really don't see those people. Why do we walk around consumed by our own thoughts? Would it kill us to look around to see if someone needs help? If someone gets hurt, what do most people do? They walk right on by. The world would be a better place if one person helped another out. We shouldn't need shows like "Extreme Home Makeover" to force ourselves to help people.
Now, I'm not saying that I'm a saint cuz I'm not. I'm guilty of this too, I can not not say that I haven't done it. I have walked by someone who needed money and didn't do a thing about. Or I have walked by someone who has fallen and pretended I didn't see them. Or I have laughed when someone trips then walk by and not help them, at all. I'm not innocent but I have realized that I do have faults. I have tried correct them......*tried* being the key word.
I thought of this while watching a Nickleback video (The song's called "Savin Me".). The lead guy is saved from certain death by some random person on the street. The saved guy looks for his savior and can't find him but finds ticking numbers above people's heads. He doesn't know what it means until he sees an old lady die and watches her numbers tick very fast down to zero. He can't save her but he understands what he should do. He wonders around looking for someone when he finds a lady heading to her car and he sees that her numbers are falling fast. He pulls her back just as something from the sky falls on her car smashing in the roof. He disappears into the crowd.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. If you haven't seen the video, I highly suggest you watch it cuz I suck at summaries and it's a very good video to watch.
All I'm saying is that if we help someone out, maybe we'll be helped out in return
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Hey, I totally agree with you. We just walk campus listening to our ipods totally oblivious to others around us. It seems like there isn't really any human interaction at all.
Michelle
UI undergraduate
Focus: philosophy, biology, education
Nice post. And I agree with you. Its like karma, in my mind anyway. You help someone, someone helps you. Just like if you hurt someone, that pain returns back to you. I always try to help people, even if I just smile at someone who looks as if their puppy died, I try and make them feel better even if they are a complete stranger, all with a smile. Anyway, good post, and its nice to know that they are nice people in the world.