Just the other day when my husband and me were visiting a sick relative in the hospital we happened to come across a very sad sight. Two young men probably in their late twenties were badly bruised from head to toe.

They were bleeding profusely and we immediately realised that they had met with an accident.

Since we were stuck for quite sometime on the main road due to a traffic jam we got to witness what was actually happening. They were asking the man who had hit them for help. All they wanted was for him to give them a lift to the nearby hospital.But the man seemed to be extremely rude to these young men.It turned out that this filthy rich man had just crashed into their bike and had hurt them badly, but since he was afraid that these bruised men would ask for some kind of compensation, he was waiting to rush off from the spot.

He kept screaming that "they were the ones who were on the wrong side of the road, that they should have been more careful and that he had a lot of important things to do". So saying he zoomed off in his car. We were shocked to notice that the car was an Army vehicle and obviously the rude man in the car belonged to the Indian Army .(not kidding at all)

That got me thinking about all the things we see around us from time to time.People seem to be losing out on virtues like kindness,loyalty, love and basic humanity.There was a time when strangers would run to the rescue of people in trouble but today be it your own sibling, friend or even a spouse sometimes people try to play safe.They would rather save their own hides than risk helping someone out.

Money and fame seems to be all that we care about. Educational institutions and professional courses seem to concentrate on a child's career guidance and money making prospects in his or her given future.No one seems to be inculcating value based education among children and youngsters today.They are taught to be financially, emotionally, socially and psychologically self dependent forgetting that once they become entirely self reliant and confident about themselves they don't see the need to be good to anyone except themselves.

My mind goes back to the man who refused to help.I wonder what he would go through in his heart and mind if he reached home and found out that his wife or child would meet with a similar accident and were treated by a stranger the same way that he had treated the young men on the motorbike.

I know this is a cruel thought but then it is only when we put ourselves in the other person's shoes do we realise what kindness is all about. If we realised the significance of the biblical statements " As you sow so shall you reap " and "love thy neighbour as thyself" the world would be a much more happier place to live in.

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