A friend of mine and I were in the car. She was the one driving. Suddenly, the gear stopped working; as in, it just wouldn’t move.
So, we just had to stop right there, in the middle of the road, without a way to move the car.
She hysterically tried to call her dad to come and help, while the noises of hooting cars, shouting drivers and swear words echoed around us.
I lept out of the car, and put that small triangular sign behind the car so that people would at least know that we were stuck.
The swearing didn’t stop. People were still shouting as much as ever, I honestly felt like crying at that moment.
Long story short, her dad arrived and the car was sorted out.
A couple of days later, this same friend of mine and I are driving, and right before us, is a car. It’s stuck.
“ Why can’t they just get OUT OF THE WAY?!”
I stared at her. Long and hard.
“ You know, we were in that exact same situation a couple of days back.”
She remained silent.
The one thing that scares me about most people, is the utter lack of empathy. The way some people just forget that other people have problems, just like you do. There’s absolutely no need to make life harder for someone when you could simply just go on with your life.
It scares me how someone can be overwhelmed by haters, then after redemption, turns around, and becomes one.
It scares me how someone could go through pain, turn around, then inflict that exact pain on someone else.
What I’m trying to say is:
It’s scary just how cold-hearted we humans can be.
But never forget the warmth though — there’s a lot of it.
-Lindi Louw
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