This world is consumed by selfishness!!
I stayed up last night catching up on MSN with a close friend who shall remain anonymous in this entry. Half way through the conversation, a recent exhousemate nudged me. After attending to her, I found out that she was in trouble and may probably get to the hospital. Problem was that she left her phone in someone else's house and had no means of communication. I did not quite get what she was trying to tell me, because of the language barrier, but I knew she was afraid, alone and needed help.
I turned to that close friend who I was happening to be talking to, and told her that I am going to take a cab to my exhousemate's house and bring her to the hospital because obviously she was in some trouble. That close friend gave me a cold shoulder, told me that I am too helpful that it is stupid and that only I will bother, no one else would be so silly. Her reason was that it was already going 2am, and it's silly to be wasting my money taking cab and insisted it could wait because it wasn't a life and death matter. I fired back, asking her how could it be possible to know someone is in pain and leave the person alone and I thought it is morally not right. She snapped back saying, "There are thousands of people who are in pain and need help in this world, you can't attend to all.". I slumped back onto my seat with the biggest pang of disappointment and disbelief.
Is this it? Is this what the world is becoming into? The breed of selfishness and self-centeredness?? It got to me so much because it came from a close friend, someone who I've came to respect and grew fond of. I raise this issue now not because I am angry just at that friend, but the society as a whole! Since when is being helpful and empathy silly?? What bothers me the most is the fact that she raised the issue about sufferings in the world and made it sound like nothing can be done. Of course nothing can be done, because the society believes that nothing can be done! Because the society chooses to ignore it!
What truely is a sin, to me, is the fact that if we know someone is suffering, someone is in pain and need help but we ignore and avoid to think about it, because we think that nothing could be done. Nothing could be done because there's just too many selfish individuals in this world. And to end sufferings is not a one man's job and because of this goddamn mentality, selfishness spreads at its fastest pace! Sometimes, though it is not a life and death matter, but what doesn't seem to be important to us, may not be the same to other individuals. The point is not the fact that we think it is not a big deal because it seems not to be a big deal, the whole point is that it is bothering partically individuals...and I believe that anyone in this world does not deserve the slightest pain. If we can help, we help, because with the pain one have already beared, I don't think s/he still deserve our ignorance.
Sufferings multiply daily throughout the entire world everyday is because of our selfishness. Don't make it sound like we have to be selfish because sufferings is multiplying and there's nothing we can do. We, in the first place, are the culprit to the world's endless sufferings. Of course as an individual, with no superhero power, we won't be able to save the world...but if we could just do the best we can, I am sure there'll be much less sufferings around.
I turned to that close friend who I was happening to be talking to, and told her that I am going to take a cab to my exhousemate's house and bring her to the hospital because obviously she was in some trouble. That close friend gave me a cold shoulder, told me that I am too helpful that it is stupid and that only I will bother, no one else would be so silly. Her reason was that it was already going 2am, and it's silly to be wasting my money taking cab and insisted it could wait because it wasn't a life and death matter. I fired back, asking her how could it be possible to know someone is in pain and leave the person alone and I thought it is morally not right. She snapped back saying, "There are thousands of people who are in pain and need help in this world, you can't attend to all.". I slumped back onto my seat with the biggest pang of disappointment and disbelief.
Is this it? Is this what the world is becoming into? The breed of selfishness and self-centeredness?? It got to me so much because it came from a close friend, someone who I've came to respect and grew fond of. I raise this issue now not because I am angry just at that friend, but the society as a whole! Since when is being helpful and empathy silly?? What bothers me the most is the fact that she raised the issue about sufferings in the world and made it sound like nothing can be done. Of course nothing can be done, because the society believes that nothing can be done! Because the society chooses to ignore it!
What truely is a sin, to me, is the fact that if we know someone is suffering, someone is in pain and need help but we ignore and avoid to think about it, because we think that nothing could be done. Nothing could be done because there's just too many selfish individuals in this world. And to end sufferings is not a one man's job and because of this goddamn mentality, selfishness spreads at its fastest pace! Sometimes, though it is not a life and death matter, but what doesn't seem to be important to us, may not be the same to other individuals. The point is not the fact that we think it is not a big deal because it seems not to be a big deal, the whole point is that it is bothering partically individuals...and I believe that anyone in this world does not deserve the slightest pain. If we can help, we help, because with the pain one have already beared, I don't think s/he still deserve our ignorance.
Sufferings multiply daily throughout the entire world everyday is because of our selfishness. Don't make it sound like we have to be selfish because sufferings is multiplying and there's nothing we can do. We, in the first place, are the culprit to the world's endless sufferings. Of course as an individual, with no superhero power, we won't be able to save the world...but if we could just do the best we can, I am sure there'll be much less sufferings around.
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