Learn to ignore, learn to forget

Author: Ye Xuan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: A car accident in the city, the driver was hit and left bloody and mangled, but not a single passing taxi stopped. Finally, the police and ambulance arrived, but the injured person was declared dead on the way to the hospital due to excessive blood loss. A migrant worker was injured, but the hospital demanded that his relatives raise enough money before they could give him a blood transfusion. However, the blood fee was short by 100 yuan, and it took more than ten hours, missing the best chance for rescue. Doctors are God's only hands, but this hand refuses to pause for even a moment for a life. Having seen too many stories of indifference, having seen too many people condemning indifference, but not everyone reflects on the causes of indifference. Even not everyone thinks: When I encounter a pair of hands pleading for help, when I hear that desperate scream, when I am looked at with expectant eyes, what would I do? Of course, we admit that indifference has its excuses: because someone was deceived, because someone was falsely accused, because someone was just trying to protect themselves when they were unable to help. Self-preservation is not wrong, but the error lies in some people who are clearly in a position to help but refuse to call the police for the woman who was robbed, or stop their car and give a bag of blood to the injured person. After all, 23 years have passed, and our reasons for indifference have not changed in the slightest. That is: we never use these unlucky thoughts to imagine ourselves—if the person asking for help is me, if the person screaming desperately is me, if the person looking at me with expectant eyes is me—What do I need? In fact, in this situation, what we need most is help. So, at that time, if someonely walked past me, if I died innocently in indifference, would we become ghosts at the gates of hell or the bridge of no return, even if we no longer reincarnate, to go to the mortal world to make those who saw injustice but did nothing accountable! As for other stories, there are many. An elderly person was staggering and swaying while standing on a bus, but no one was willing to give up their seat; a neighbor's house was robbed, and the thief walked boldly through the front door, but the witness, having never seen the neighbor's face, mistook the thief for the male head of the household. It's not a crime, but it's heart-wrenching. P30