It is a busy Thursday Morning. The time is 9.20. Crossing the busy main roads is a circus event truly. Music accompanies me on my shuffle as I try to traverse through the chaos. And all I can hear, dotting my music are the honks of the vehicles and a lone siren. The wail of an ambulance siren. Persistent as it may be, it stimulates an unease in me immediately. I shut off the music, cause it seems so indecent to be even listening to it, while someone out there is suffering. I ease out of the way, wanting the ambulance to pass and wait for the siren to diminish. But I can still hear the persistent wail. I was waiting for the people around me to clear and let the ambulance pass. But, I was shocked to see, that people were actually trying to race across the ambulance and in front of it, because the siren clears the way for the people to move quicker through the traffic. The first thought that occurred to me was - What is wrong with all these people? Cant they hear the siren? Dont they feel the unease that I feel? Have all of us suddenly turned deaf and blind? What happened to words like Humanity and Compassion? Is this where we are all headed ? Is there even a bit of humanness left in us to actually stop and think and see and help all that is happening around us? Or have we all become so immersed in lives, that the wail of a siren, which demands attention towards the serious condition of a fellow human being, has become so mundane to us? Will we be doing the same thing, if the person in the ambulance were our near and dear ones?
What has happened to humanity and compassion? Did all those people who taught us these words and gave their lives to this cause, die a meaningless death? I Wonder !
God help us !!
1 comment:
Hey Uma,
Thats true and more insane act is the constant following of the ambulance as the ambulance takes the fastest way out of the suffocating traffic. Moreover the buses in the city have a bloody attitude of not stopping at signals but they wont budge even if they hear the ambulance, even after people constantly shouting at them.
Firstly, blocking the way for an ambulance or following it is not only inhuman but also foolish and against the law. Following is also another foolish act as it might swerve and dodge oncoming traffic to find some way frantically and it would result in accidents.....
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