For Once, I Did A Good Deed.

The other day, yesterday to be precise, I was walking along when a lady dropped her bag and the contents spilled out across the path in front of me. Stupidly I said, "Oh sorry" as though it was my fault. It most definitely wasn't, it was simply because she was carrying far too many bags that there was a 90% chance that she was going to drop at least one. Which she did. So I asked her if she wanted help, to which she chuckled and said "No thank you." However, she was still carrying all these bags and there was now a 50% chance that she was going to drop one, again. So, stupidly I dithered about ready to catch any of her bags if she dropped them but she didn't and so I looked like a complete idiot. End of story.

Basically, the point I'm trying to make is that these days people don't really do anything nice for each other and when they do, everyone always seems extremely surprised as though it's some great novelty that people are actually being friendly. The lady I just mentioned didn't act like this but I was shocked at myself for pausing to help her out.

I was just thinking how completely frustrating it is that people can't be bothered to help each other out anymore. Rather than ignoring people or thinking about it first, being a nice person should be a natural thing. It's a shame that it isn't.