QOTD: a hero
by digby
Joshua Garcia jumped on the tracks in front on an oncoming subway train to save an unconscious girl who had fallen. He said:
It was adrenaline and the power of the Lord," Garcia said.
For a moment, he found himself looking up from the tracks at scores of faces watching them. Some people were snapping photos or taking video with their cellphones, he said.
"It was amazing seeing all these people doing nothing," he said. "It was an eye-opener."
You know, it's not just that they were doing nothing. That might be human. People can freeze in such a situation or might not be able to move fast enough to help. But the ones who were taking pictures and video didn't freeze, did they? They were all capable of moving quickly enough to pull out their phones and record the event.
I noticed this not long ago on the freeway in the wake of an accident that happened right in front of me. Some people stopped to help. Some people immediately called 911. But there were a dozen or so people who just started filming the carnage. And in a couple of cases laughing and chatting about it as they did it. An eye-opener indeed.
Maybe people have always been this way. But sometimes I think that the ability to record everything has replaced the impulse to get involved. They're so caught up in recording their lives that they aren't really living it.
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