For the past few years, I’ve made it kind of like a routine for me to read the news every morning. The urge to know what’s happening in the country or around the world and where it’s happening is always there. I know most guys my age don’t even care about the news unless it affects them directly, but I’m not like most guys my age.
Well reading the news was one habit I learnt from my dad and I’m so happy I did because I find myself engaging in different topics and watch people look at me, feeling impressed by my vast knowledge of information. These days, I just find myself logging into news site involuntarily, it’s almost as if my body is now programmed to do so every morning.
Earlier today, I had gone on one of those news site and there was this particular news that got my attention. Apparently a suicide victim had tried jumping off a bridge but just before he could do it, a commercial motorcyclist had seen him and grabbed him just as the man leaped off the bridge.
The video making the rounds was a scene that made me sick to my stomach. The man who had grabbed the suicidal man was seen screaming to the guys who were making the videos, asking them to come help him drag the suicidal man off the edge of the bridge where they both were.
In his words “This isn’t a time to video anything, come and help me drag him up” the mad shouted at the guys behind the camera in pidgin English and surprisingly none of them moved a muscle.
They all kept on filming even as the suicidal man’s leg was dangling up the bridge. It was obvious that they both could fall off any minute if no one did anything to help them and yet more than twenty people stood and did nothing. At the end of the video, another man joined them and they were able to lift the man off the bridge.
The whole thing just made me realize we human care much more for content than we do for human life. I mean I’ve heard about this things in the past but this is the first time I’m seeing something as real as this and it made me angry, really angry.
I just pray and hope we have better humans out there just like that motorcyclist who jumped just in time to save that man from killing himself.