The world is just..awesome?

You can view the description of this picture from my flickr account. Here.

But I would like to think that in a metropolitan society like Singapore, with all the "education" we get and all, you would think that we would bother to stop and help these people (I'm not saying the man in the picture wants charity, but maybe simply for someone to buy his epok epok).

Sitting by the edge of the traffic-light controlled pedestrian crossing, I saw crowds walk past him and some even kicking his shoes (not out of ill-will but out of remiss rather) and overheard this lady mutter something about "being a complete nuisance".

I suppose (some) Singaporeans are too full of themselves (me included) to notice the little disparities that we ourselves choose not to see in society today.

Such as when I was with Ira and Melody at Raffles City on the way home. A partially-blind man (Mr Kumar) bumped into me. He politely asked to be excused and I gave way. I saw him walk into a shoe store and the sales assistant kindly showed him out to the way of the MRT. Still keeping an eye on him, he walked straight just as the sales assistant told him to and despite having a blind stick, oncoming people can just walk straight towards him, probably thinking that Mr Kumar would be the one to avoid those lovely people that have the gift of vision.

In the end, I decided to help Mr Kumar by guiding him to the mrt.

I'm no saint thats for sure. I did (maybe still doing) my fair share of pushing people to get though crowds, blocking the mrt doors to ensure myself a seat during peak hour and maybe once or twice laughing at random schoolboys on the street. But at least have the common decency to look out for people that aren't as fortunate as you or me right? (The visually impaired, the pregnant, the aging, the homeless etc).

Seems like nobody cares about anyone else anymore.