Inconsiderate people
inconsiderate driving
Some people can really be inconsiderate.
One example is when I was late and rushing to get to work. I drove my car faster than what the speed limit allowed (I know it’s a wrong thing to do, but it is just an attempt to get to the train station on time :)).
The traffic light changed to green when this young guy crossing the road and walking really slow. Even slower than a snail! I beeped him thousand times, but it seemed the headphones that he wears prevented any noise to come through. Yeah, young people and their media players…
What happened is that the train left a couple of seconds before I reached my platform. I was trying to calm myself down since there is nothing else that I can do.
Another example is when I offered my seat to this pregnant lady at the train station. A random business-like guy saw the empty spot and seat on it without even considering why I didn’t seat there anymore. The pregnant lady just smiled nicely to me and she said, “It’s fine, don’t worry about it. I’m used to it.”
Isn’t it disturbing when the global community think of what just happened as ‘fine‘?
OH! I almost forgot another thing. What I’ll mention below is my biggest pet peeves. It’s about being late. For some reason I hate those people who are late. It’s not like I’d never be late in my life. I can tolerate people who are late for three, five, seven, ten, fifteen minutes. Any amount beyond that is kinda intolerable and gonna be depended on my mercy and grace.
Why is that?
Because time is something that can never be returned. Time is different with money. I can owe someone $1 and give him back the exact $1 the next day. However, if we lose 15 minutes of our time, we wouldn’t be able to gain it. Of course we still can make the “15 minutes” of our time on another day, but it would not be the same.
We need to be more considerate towards other people. Step aside instead of walking in the middle of the road. Notice our surroundings if they need any hands to help them.
Stop thinking that the world does revolve around you, because it does not.
ABOUT THIS AUTHOR
I generally agree with what’s being said here but it’s a bit of a catch 22 isn’t it? What I mean is that yes while we would like people to be more considerate out there in the world we also have to be more patient and be ready to forgive.
By no means an easy thing to do, but yes I agree the cultural (in seemingly western culture especially) stigma of not being considerate needs to change.
I’ll answer this by quotes
Jean Twenge says that
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but what we should do is
– Ellen DeGeneres.
I do agreed with the second quote, each time I started to get angry at these inconsiderate people, I looked at myself and said ‘God, I hope I didn’t do the same thing to others’