We as Humans

Detached.

People are so very detached. So detached that reading this you don't recognize yourself to be part of "people" anymore. We read bad news all day and it doesn't even set in anymore. I watch the news of death and murder flash across screens eating pizza rolls wondering what I'll do tomorrow because I have the privilege of tomorrow and I don't feel anything about it. People tell me about their problems and I just don't care. Another person with a separate conscious spills their deepest secrets and I'm interested but it doesn't make me emotional. I want to know because knowledge about someone is power, not because I worry all that much about their feelings. It's not as though we don't care about anyone. We only care about the people who effect us. Who could have been us. A car accident in another country doesn't matter. One down the road does. Because the one down the road could have been you. We worry about how tragedy effects us first. My mom told me two girls were kidnapped and my first question was where. I look at clothes on models and never once wonder about the models because they aren't what I'm being told to look at. I think my life is of equal value to everyone's. But I think of everyone as separate from myself. I ignore the part of my brain that hums that people have the same empathy for my misery as I have for theirs and that to someone else on the street, I'm just a "person." Just a part of the thing they're worried about noticing the spot on their nose. I can't remember quite what my math teacher looked like last year and I spent more time around him than I had some family members last year. Watching the news reminds me of being in a car. I'm part of it. When the car is moving at 60 miles an hour, so is my body. I'll only notice I'm moving too if the car crashes.

How close did the crash happen?