Monday, July 4, 2011

I Watched A Bug Die


Have you ever watched a bug die?

They just kind of flop over on their back, their legs flailing around, until they die. It's like they can't just roll over and keep walking.

What if people were like that? One minute we flopped over on our backs, our arms and legs flailing around, until we died. No one would be there to stop by and roll us over to say "hey, keep walking" or even worse; they would chose not to.
Do you think that's how the world is? Do you think that people are lacking in the oversized heart department? Is our ability to care decreasing at  an alarming rate?
I like to believe that each day the world is a better place, that each day people are leaving the world a little better than they left it, but I just feel like people are becoming more and more apathetic.
Does nothing matter anymore? Are we really so self-absorbed that there's no time for a friend dying of cancer or  time to drop some money in a tin for starving children.
When did what's in it for me become more important than what's in it for them ?

I think we all get a little too caught up in life sometimes that we forget the needs out there. We forget that to get a hand we have to give a hand. To get picked up we have to do some picking up.

There are so many people out their lying on their backs with their arms flailing, and we're just watching them die.

But what does it matter, its just bugs right?

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