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Last week, I had a bit of an accident at work, I was basically babysitting a crew that was disassembling and moving some equipment that we no longer use to another site, in another state.
I dislike just standing around when I saw something that needed to be done, it wasn’t something that was part of this crew’s responsibility, so I thought I would just do it myself, usually no big deal, only thing was I needed to do this from the top of a ladder.
Well I’m generally a klutz, ended up taking a good 15’-18’ fall, got lucky no serious injuries, but quite a few minor ones. It was the reaction of the crew that shocked me, not at the time but just now when I was thinking about it.
Everyone in the area, 6 guys rushed over to help, they saw someone who was hurting, they rushed over to lend whatever assistance they could, all other thoughts had instantly left their minds. Instant concern over the well being of a total stranger an unthinking willingness to lend whatever support possible, basic human nature at its finest. I didn’t think about their reaction much at the time, I was mostly concentrating on making sure I really wasn’t seriously hurt, but I was in more than a bit of pain.
But this just occurred me to, the pain from the fall was NOTHING compared to the mental anguish I have to deal with on a daily basis. But if a group of people (often times even friends and family) suddenly find out you are in “mental pain” they don’t rush to your assistance, in fact their reaction is just the opposite. They either run in the other direction, or tell you that you’re just exaggerating, or make some other dismissive statement.
WHY, why such vastly and completely opposite reactions to the what is fundamentally the same situation “a fellow human being in pain”
Could someone please explain this to me, PLEASE…
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“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” Gandhi
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