Ignore

This is a very overused word-Ignore. This word brings me back quite a lot of memories. I remember when I was a kid I went to Chennai. There I was going to some place with my uncle and cousin. We were waiting for a local train at a small station. There, a lady suddenly broke out and fell down with fits of epilepsy. She was withering on the ground like a helpless fish out of water, white foam pouring out of her mouth and her saree all flying by the powerful spasms of jerks her body was making. Out of a good number of people standing there a few were ogling at the lady with disgust and all others were doing the best we can do- Ignore, even us. After a few minutes someone came and handed over a metal key to the lady and stood 500 meters away from her. The fits stopped and the lady stood up and adjusted her saree and thanked the key guy for his generosity. Even now I think we could have helped her, we also had a key, we also knew metal keys have something to do with stopping the fits, we also knew she was in trouble, but we did not help.
As kids we tend to ignore certain things, like our mom's scolding because afterall she is our mom and if she doesn't love us back then who will. So we tend to ignore the basic principle behind it. But when it comes to ignoring others mistakes, na-uh, That's not even possible.
Maybe the street dog you just ignored for the far of a dog bite was hungry from 7 days and just needed the stale sandwich you were carrying with you. Think of the new girl you just ignored, maybe she was having a stomachache and needed directions to the washroom. Think of the crying kid you saw in the market, maybe he was your distant nephew.
There are many situations in life where we tend to ignore the wrong people. Let us stop being the ignorant nincompoops we are and actually start to open our senses.
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