Why do we love?

Today I saw the ugly side of Singaporeans. I was outside Lot 1 , waiting at the bus stop, when this taxi swerved into the outer lane. And a motorcyclist, to prevent himself from banging into the taxi, swerved into the railings and lost control of the bike, and the whole bike just fell. His girlfriend (I presume), a young school girl, was flung off the bike while the guy was clinging on to his bike for dear life.

When we heard the crash, everyone at the bus stop immediately turned to see what the commotion was about, and upon seeing the two victims sprawled on the road, they all gasped. I was with Sandy, and the guy was so desperately trying to get his bike out of the road, and everything fell out of his boot. Pitying the guy and his situation, i told Sandy i was going up to help him. And on the way, i think i mumbled something quite loudly, "Bloody Singaporeans, all oooh aaah, but none go help him."

I went to help him clear his stuff (that fell out of the boot) off the road, and Sandy helped him too. After that we went to attend to the girl who was hurt. She was a young secondary school girl, and she had scrapes on her arm and leg. I guess she was in shock. She asked us for water and tissue, and she kept cleaning her arm with the tissue frantically, and it was swollen. We persuaded her to go to the doctor's, and she said it was okay. The guy finally dragged his bike to the side of the road, and then came to ask us for tissue too. He was really really in trauma, cos his hand was trembling real badly. He spoke in malay to his girl friend, and i heard something like "pukimakao, stupid taxi driver, c*** b**". He must have really been in shock cos i don't think he realised we were still there. just kept scolding the taxi driver. While his girl friend kept showing us verbal appreciation, which we casually shrugged off, cos i felt it was the right thing to do.

There clearly was alot of people at the bus stop, and everyone, i meant everyone, freaking hell didn't even bother to go help the poor guy out. They thought that their eye power was good enough. Like, "Gasp! Is that guy alright? He looks hurt!" Damn it of course he isn't alright! He needs freaking help! I rememberly vividly, I approached one other guy to go on the road with me to help the guy lift his bike to the side of the road, and the guy just ignored me. What the freak. Then after the whole incident, i saw him standing behind the bus stop, still waiting for the bus, with not the least regard for the poor soul.

I mean, c'mon. What would you have done? This is exactly the kind of situation that makes us Singaporeans look ugly. I always read in the papers (and sometimes Reader's Digest too), often we SAY that we'll help people whenever help is required. But when the real thing comes, we all don't DO it. So why talk the talk when you can't even walk your own talk? I just hope that people will just be more considerate, and learn not to be just bystanders. If you can help someone in need, what's stopping you? Pride? Wasting your own time? Not important to you? None of your business? Sometimes we have to look past ourselves to see the greater need in other people. It cannot always be me myself i, if you haven't already realised. We live in a community, and what is the community for? To help one another, duh. So please, those of you reading this blog, i urge you guys to help others whenever the need arises, and not only when it's for your own convenience.

I guess all this was planned, cos Sandy and I were supposed to take the first bus 307, but it was too crowded with school kids, so we decided to take the other one, when we saw the accident. All predestined.

I think this caused me to think of other stuff too, like how people often say things but don't actually do it. This is really a bad image for us, especially Christians. So yeahh. I don't know what else to say, cos i really can't live that life out.

i just need you to be next to me.