anybody still care?

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Angrius

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I was taking the bus to my parents last night. At the terminal we were told that there was going to be a 2 hour delay because of an accident on the highway. No big deal. It's two hours. I've sh*t longer.

Finally we get on the bus and are stopped 500 feet behind the accident and told that we have to wait about twenty minutes or turn around. Everybody on the bus started to complain and whine about the wait. I recall comments like "Oh man.I am so fing tired of this sh*t..I just want to go to sleep..I got so high last night" or "well this is just great, I guess my husband is going to have to drive to pick me up twice tonight".

I can understand their impatience. Oh did I mention that one women (after only waiting about 10 minutes) started complaining alerting us to the fact that hers was wearing thin?
I didn't mention either that before coming to a stop, everybody knew that in the accident, there was a car underneath a transport in the ditch where it took police, firefighters and ambulance workers 9 hours to try and save the one person who still was alive. Nine hours. can you imagine what goes though a persons mind. The mind in the car. The minds outside trying desperatly to save a life. The other two passengers were spread out down the highway and ditch. When I say that, I'm not exageratting. The person who was saved wasflown to Toronto and put in critical condition. Those people don't have the luxury of getting somebody to drive them home tonight.

Does anybody ever feel like nobody gives a sh*t about anything other than what is going on in their small little lives? Not once did they think or mention or wonder if it was somebody they knew. It turns out that it was somebody that was a nurse and looked after my nephew when he was sick. You never know.
I felt alone on that bus last night. What do you guys think? Are we not caring anymore? I feel so fortunate to have a gift where it is all about capturing emotions. You guys must feel the same I'm sure. Thanks for taking your time to read my ramblings.
 
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I lived in California (east Bay) several years ago. Traffic was horrible on a daily basis. It would average over an hour for me to drive 11 miles home from work. I would have ridden a bicycle to work except I would have had to cross the one section of freeway that actually moved. Anyway, one day there was a suicidal person on a bridge over the freeway threatening to jump. So the police stopped traffic and tried to talk the guy down. It was during rush hour and traffic completely stopped. People near the bridge got out of their cars and started shouting at the guy to go ahead and jump so traffic could start moving again.

Sometimes it does seem that most people only care about their own little inconveniences. But maybe those people just stand out more. Most people weren’t encouraging the guy to jump, but I remember the few who did. (I actually saw all this on the news; it was in the opposite direction of my commute so I didn’t get stuck in it.)

I’m extremely impatient. I’m always swearing at traffic. But if the backups are caused by an accident (most of the backups around me are due to random lane closures and construction), then I’m grateful that I’m not in the accident.
 
Don't get me started... this world keeps getting more and more selfish. I know personally I sit and think of how everything effects me... and not how it effects others... and if I stop thinking about me, and I start thinking about others... I have a much more joyous day. Anyway... good post, and good observation.
 
I hear you on all the above! Some most people don't care about nothing but themselves. It's a selfish world that we live in and none of us are an exception to it, that's the sad thing. On the flip side, I too am a compassionate person to those who are injured in an accident but if it's a break down then look out. I usually swear off the poor soul broken down of the shoulder.
 
I wonder why we get so wrapped up in the minutia of life. It happens to the best of us, but if you take 2 seconds to step back and look from a different angle there is so much more to be seen. We have been forced into this servitude of the mundane and meaningless, so people take the little they have and are extremely protective over it. I don't the little they have in a material sense, but in a more spirtual sense. This leads to selfishness, which in turn leads to the poor soul who wanted to jump off the bridge.

I think that we as artists and filmmakers have a responsibility to ourselves, and humanity to give people substance and raise awareness that there is more to life out there, and there is no need to just focus on ones self.
 
where have all the flowers gone, long time passing, when will they ever learn? ..........i looked at clouds that way but now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone......i forgot how the rest goes. how we change our perception as we get older..... it's sad. but it doesn't have to be that way.
 
It's true... I wish younger people understood life is bigger than themselves... it's a hard thing to always live in... but it's the truth.
 
in turkish theres a term "bos insanlar". it refers to people who are shallow, self centered and for the most part stupid. i am flabberghasted at how many people fit this descrıption in this world.

"It's true... I wish younger people understood life is bigger than themselves..."
Briceman


i am young. 22. and i have only 2 friends my age or younger. i cant stand most of my own generation for reasons like this. People making a big deal out of being delayed by an accident persay, to make themselves feel important. Because why else would you be verbally protesting your inconvenience on a bus full of strangers.

i just hope that one person trapped in the car survived.
 
I wouldn't relate this to youth. There are plenty of jaded older folks as well. In my experience, it's a certain class of young idealists who are most compassionate until life hardens them.

We live in a very difficult time that seems less difficult because our problem is not with SURVIVAL but with HUMANITY. More and more, I find that the people around me have no time for simple human interactions. Somewhere in our heads we know that terrible things are happening all over the world, but the American lifestyle focuses us on daily minutiae and career and our own failing hopes for a more peaceful life when we are elderly. Yet we're at war. Unpredictable nuclear powers are rising. Resources are running short. There's a feeling of impotence in the face of it. What can compassion do?

Too much of the structure of our lives is competition rather than cooperation.
 
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