I believe that humanity has never before found itself so mentally disconnected from one another as it is today. In a situation so far removed spiritually from its fellow human beings as it can be seen these days. Perhaps technology has something to do with it, or perhaps not. But socially and in public, these distances tends to become more and more noticeable each day. Maybe I'm wrong and I'm the only one who perceives it this way, but I hope that only after reading this post will you give me your opinion. Let's begin!

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Sometimes, I wonder how a person who is truly in a pressing situation and in real need, can today approach anyone to ask for help, when knowing that nowadays probably everyone or the vast majority of people in that place are also in a similar situation to theirs.

With a pressing situation and in real need, obviously I am referring to suddenly be into a precarious economic and financial situation in the face of an emergency. And when I say asking people for help, I evidently mean requesting some monetary collaboration or contribution that provides or may provide some relief to their urgent situation. Especially these days when we know that nobody has anything to spare and basically we're all equally screwed. Because today almost everyone is always lacking something and never has anything to spare. ¿Have you ever noticed this?

Well, I've certainly noticed it. And interestingly, I've noticed it quite frequently on public transportation. Whether it's inside the subway train cars in my city or on the vans and buses of the public transport system above ground. Where it is quite common that someone with these supposedly pressing situations get aboard, tell us their brief story, and in the end ask us for some kind of help or financial collaboration.

But what has always struck me as unique and truly peculiar, is the fact that only those in situ who appear to be in a similar economic situation, and who are probably just as screwed as they are, are precisely the only ones who contribute and collaborate as much as they humbly can. Some contribute more, some less, but almost all contribute.

However, you never see those who are also there wearing suits and ties with polished leather shoes and slicked-back hair listening music from their luxury smartphones through headphones, even flinch at what the person has been saying and make even the gesture of putting their hands in their pockets to try to help.

¿Do you also wonder why this happens?

Well, I have a hypothesis that has almost been transformed into a theory today. I suspect that only those who have less and also less to spare are in a better position and have a greater capacity to understand what the person asking for help has told them. This is either because they themselves have already gone through it at some point or because they feel they may find themselves in a similar situation in the not-too-distant future.

It possibly may be simply a matter of sympathy, empathy and compassion rather than pure solidarity and generosity. What highlights the importance of being aware that we are indeed not really too different from anyone else and that this is what makes us truly generous and supportive. Because if at a given moment we are all in the same subway car or riding in the same van or bus, chances are we are all much more alike than we think.

«Check the Mr. Potato Head who is sitting next to you»

¿Does that Mr. Potato Head sitting next to you in the subway, van or bus looks the same or similar to you? That one who even camouflaged with his fancy suit and tie, with his polished leather shoes and slicked-back hair listening reggaeton from his luxury smartphone through headphones isolating himself from the whole world, have him any relation to you or have him anything to do with you?

Uhm, most likely not. Because it's quite possible he's just an infiltrator used to go around the town riding onto his air-conditioned 4x4 truck with wide tires and a strident sound system forcing everyone in his path to listen the shitty reggaeton he's listening while driving. Who simply for convenience, speed and comfort, that day he decided to take the subway, the van or the bus to get to where he was going faster without messing up much his hair or bother himself later trying to find parking in the area he was going to. Because I've seen them, I know them, and I've seen them many times.

Yeah, many of them are completely unaware that someone else but them may exist and nothing can exist around them as they always go through life locked in their technological bubble of four wide tires, air conditioning and filled with electronic gadgets and a loud sound system that distracts and entertains them with noisy "music" that stuns them while they need to move from one place to another. They almost never abandon it.

But when they do. Because sometimes they need to do it for comfort, convenience, or speed. They only leave their mothership in a smaller craft or encased in their sumptuous spacesuits with their headphones plugged into their ears and controlled by their fancy smartphone in their pockets to continue in their zombie-like life in which the world around them is completely blurred, blanked and faded away. There is nothing around them worth their attention on and even less so if it's about helping someone in need. They are now made of plastic and have long since ceased to function in the real world.