Has anyone heard of this show called "What Would You Do?" I've only just barely discovered it about a week or 2 ago. At first I thought it was really interesting (slash hilarious...) to see some of the reactions people had to someone trying to steal a bike, or a drunk girl at a bar, etc. And I won't lie. Ya, I still find it pretty funny; however, I've slowly become appalled by the lack of moral integrity in Americans (generalization here because it only shows Americans).
Right now I feel that I'm about to take a seat on a Shire horse (look it up... it's huge). But this is my blog and I can say what I want!
Ok. So here's my beef. We as American's have been loosing the capacity to step in when things are going wrong... and this is just every day stuff! When things like 9/11 or Katrina and the like happen, the majority of people are there fixin it up! But when a girl at a restaurant who appears to be beaten and is being verbally and somewhat physically abused by her boyfriend in public people for some reason have a hard time saying "Hey, that's not cool" and then helpin the poor girl out. (Side note: in the episode this happened in, some white grandma said about the black couple that they must be a pimp and whore couple...ok...)
All of these situations are put up by actors, but specialists kinda follow up on each scenario that the show puts on. Have you ever seen someone in need and completely ignored it thinking "It's not my business" or "Someone else will take care of it"? Recently, I had this kind of experience.
At the beginning of this semester I didn't have a flute teacher. It wasn't until a good month after school had started that I got one. She's really great. A wonderful woman and teacher. Unfortunately, she doesn't actually live here. She drives up Sunday nights from Utah and then drives back to her family Wednesday mornings. Sucks, right? One fine day I had this thought: "What is she eating for dinner?" I thought it couldn't be anything spectacular because I knew she was staying in a hotel and therefore probably was enjoying frequent pb&j sammiches and the like. So I decided to take it upon myself to hook her up with some awesome meals so that 2 nights out of the week she wouldn't have to eat unpleasantries. Once I started this, I thought to let other girls in the flute section have an opportunity at it. So I wrote up this calendar with the rest of the semester's Mondays and Tuesdays on it. The first couple people I told were really excited about it and signed up. Everyone who heard about it thought it was a really good idea, so I was feelin pretty cool.
Soon thereafter, however, a couple of people gave me the big "Well, I'll think about it." Ok. Cool. Now, I may be super rude for feelin this way, but I think that when you are given such an easy way to help someone, why would you not? A problem people were facing was that Mondays and Tuesdays are super busy for them and they aren't even done with their days until 5.45. Ok. Well, she can't even eat til after 7 or 8. I have class until 8 on Tuesdays, but somehow managed to make Chicken Poblano for her yesterday. I dunno...
Ok. In the end, the entire calendar got filled up. I haven't completely lost hope in the possible charity or morality of my fellow men. But I still think it's something we all need to kinda sit back and think about. Sometimes we can't sit around and wait for someone to give us something to do, or wait for someone else to step up first.
Fellow Americans: act.
Song of the Post: Lonely Nites by Vic Ruggiero
