Still Good People Out There!

So last Friday I was babysitting (per usual) and I was watching that show "What would you do?". Its where they set up hidden cameras and run social experiements to see what regular people will do in different situations.

I always want to be put on the show because I feel like I would act completely different that the typical people they have on- the people who just don't seem to care at all.

This week they showed a nicely dressed lady pass out on a busy sidewalk and it took on average 3 seconds for someone to help her. They then had a poorly dressed man do the same, and it took people 3 minutes (!!) to respond. Then they made the mad look homeless and had him hold a beer can and pass out. NO ONE DID ANYTHING. They just walked right by him as he lay on the ground, having just passed out in front of people walking by.

The only person that helped was an actual homeless woman who just stood beside him for a half an hour just asking people who walked by if they would call him an ambulance. No one even listened to her or acknowledged her. Here is this lady who has absolutely nothing to offer this man, and nothing in general, and yet she's standing there trying to get someone to help him.

I sat there literally sobbing for like 15 minutes. It breaks my heart that people would walk by another human being who could be dying and no one even acknowledges it. I know sitting here I can say I would help him and whose to say what I would do in that situation. I wouldn't say I'd bend down and begin giving this stranger mouth to mouth but I would atleast take the 30 seconds to call him and ambulance and to see that he was okay.

Its nice to see that there are still (a few) good people out there,but its very sad that there aren't more people willing to help out another human being. What if it were you in that mans shoes? You would want someone to help you.