Whatever Happened to Empathy?
Commentary
On an afternoon stroll yesterday, I noticed across the street a quick-walking woman on a sidewalk headed toward a family of four coming the other direction. The woman ran into the family like a bowling ball hitting pins. On the other side of the resulting mess, the woman who was the main cause of the conflict screamed back: “You could have gotten out of the way!”
Puzzling. Life is so full of challenges and disappointments. It strikes me as unfathomable that such a normal engagement—a problem once resolved with a smile and a bit of deference—would be so quickly turned into an occasion for outright meanness….