not really sure how to start this, but here it goes...
i was driving home from school about a month after i got my drivers license. i was on interstate I85, traffic was pretty packed, still moving well, just congested when up ahead about 75 yards i saw a silver jeep go rolling off to the side of the road the car must have rolled a good 3-4 times doing about 55-60 MPH. within minutes i was pulling out this girl (later i found she was 19)of the upside down totaled jeep Cherokee i noticed she had two gashes on her right side one on her head and one on her shoulder that was bleeding very badly so i took off my shirt and held pressure as i called 911. the girl was out cold when i got there. as i was waiting i really did not know what else i could do besides just hold pressure when i realized something i felt was very wrong... no one else stopped. i saw this from about 75 yards away i'm sure at least 30 other people saw this happen, 10 of them had to have seen it happen literally right in front of them even more drove by about 20-25 minutes later the ambulance arrives where one of the medics told me that if i had not slowed the bleeding she would have died from blood loss within 10 minutes, if not sooner. after the ambulance had left the police were asking me a bunch of questions but i could not stop thinking about how no one else stopped. have we really become this cold? i mean people are driving by and there's a 16 year old boy holding a 19 year old girl that's basically bleeding to death 10 feet from where more and more people are just driving by. and nobody else stopped ya know? how wrapped up in our own little worlds are we to the point where no one cares about the well being of anyone else about them self's? how important are our tiny little tasks like "oh i gotta get to a meeting...", "oh i gotta get to work..." i had places i had to go, but i stopped... its a fellow human being who very obviously needs a hand, but nobody else stopped... that's just sad...
this happened roughly 4 months ago and i have recurring nightmares litterally 5 out of 7 days of the week of this girl dying in my arms for all kinds of reasons, couldn't find my phone, w/e. but i keep getting the question running through my head "what if i did'nt stop?" that girl is someone's sister, daughter, granddaughter, best friend, roll model, etc. gone just like that. and no one else cares enough to stop.
i'm sorry if i'm getting too much into my personal life i just don't know.
is this really what man kind has come to?