Monday bloody Monday. Two emotions are most prevalent today - anger and sadness. Everything was going well. Passengers on the '10' tram to Hietzing this morning experienced a scene which will surely remain engrained in their minds for a while to come.
Traffic lights. Motorcycle. Truck. Screaming.
I cannot describe the sound of metal being crushed under a truck. The eerie stillness that follows whilst people try to compute what they have just seen, followed by a sudden flurry of movements.
A woman had just been run over by a truck, right in front of my very eyes. The piercing screams meant that she was still alive. Rushing out of the tram, a man stopped me. "Ohne dich gehts auch". Why wasn't I allowed to help? Surely I'd be of more help than those horrid boys photographing the scene on their i-Phones and exchanging inappropriate glances
Tram continues.
People continue about their business as before. The lady next me fails to answer my question - perhaps she hasn't heard me. She grunts at me for not getting up the second the tram has reached our destination.
I am angry and sad. Yet who am I to judge what the woman on the tram has been through/is going through? Her indifference to these events made me feel angry. The boys taking pap shots made me angry.
Yet:
This episode has led my mind to go into overdrive today.
Thinking, thinking, thinking.
1 comment:
How awful...
I've often felt a similar feeling, and it gets to me for a long time. I think, why do people not care about others? And am overwhelmed by the feeling of oneness with everyone, that we are all human and need to BE human to each other. But there is so much seperation, annoyance, and like you said ppls own problems in every day life, that few people bother to give a helping hand or a gentle word to a stranger human being.
I haven't witnessed the same as you, but things such as old people who can barely walk getting on buses- obviously need to be given a seat. SO many times I've had to ask people to give up their seat. ANd sometimes, they act angry about it. This always gets to me..
Anyway, as some kind of conclusion I thought we can do our thing to help and influence others. It's the beginning of a change.
..N
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