Insights

The other day while I was trying to get up on a crowded metro, an old man who was trying to get down from the train actually fell near my feet due to excessive crowd jostling near the compartment doors.... i tried to help him get up but he was too heavy for me to help on my own but luckily the people around rushed to help! But as the train pulled away from the platform, I noticed that the other people too had deserted the old man and that he was left standing near a pillar all by himself looking helpless.

At that point I actually felt guilty that maybe i should have stayed back to help the poor person up the stairs or at least till the ticket barriers but then I realized that I could not have done much on my own and the person was not seriously hurt and also i was getting late as well. The time being the most important factor here. I suppose i belong to the class of people who wants to help but never does much about it.

All this led me to think that maybe in our race against time we are overlooking our duties towards the society. We are so busy running against everything and everyone that we have some how stopped appreciating the people around us. How many times in our lives have we actually stopped and said to our parents and grandparents that we love them? We humans actually have very short memory spans and an amazing tendency to take things for granted.

Right now if the situation is so bad....what will it be like in say another 20 odd years?Someday even we will be old and frail and maybe just as helpless....will then people just bypass us and carry on walking, pretending we are just a part of the scenery? I shudder to think about the future.... a future we ourselves are helping to create!