I once witnessed a young boy get hit by a car. I was traveling up the main road through my town following a steady stream of cars moving slowly up a hill. Three boys on bikes were coming down the hill. A girl in a car was looking to make a left turn out of a local shop. From my vantage point, I could see what was about to happen and was powerless to help. She struck one of the boys and he flew off his bike into the street. I screamed in horror. At that moment, people revealed a part of their human nature that many don’t know they have until in a situation like this.
The Fighters – I quickly pulled my car over and went running full speed to the boy to care for him in any way I could.
The Flaggers – Another guy used his car to block traffic coming his way. An elderly woman did the same with her car to block those coming from the opposite direction.
The Freezers – The girl driving the car that hit him just sat frozen in her car, gripping the wheel, trying to process what had just happened.
The Lovers – One friend of the boy immediately began to sob uncontrollably at seeing his friend hurt.
The Runners – The other friend started pacing back and forth grabbing his head and when I asked him to go run to get this boy’s family, he took off willingly to accept the directions on how to help.
The Passersby – A stream of people drove by, some looking concerned, but many just too absorbed in their daily life to get involved.
The Heroes – A trained off duty paramedic saw the forming crowd and ran in to relieve me from holding the boy still and began to give him the medical attention he needed.
People are different. They react different in times of tragedy, stress and mourning. I have never seen that fact so widely ignored and such an intolerant blind eye turned towards this than I have in 2020. In a time where “follow the science” has become a mind-numbing, slow drip of water to the brain, annoyance of a saying — we seem to ignore the science of psychology and the differences in humans conditioned responses.
People are DIFFERENT.
It explains the wide-range of responses to the Coronavirus, the subsequent lockdowns, the masks. People react differently. PERIOD. We are raised different, wired different, conditioned different. It isn’t about political party … ding dongs. I am so tired of hearing that when the proof is right within the history books. During the Spanish Flu epidemic people revolted at the end of it. I know he is old, but Trump wasn’t President then. You ALWAYS had people that resisted these things. ALWAYS. You sound like complete morons, ignorant of history, to attach that stigma to any party. Honestly, if I hear one more, “these dumb Trump supporters won’t listen to guidelines .. I may scream”. You are wrong. So wrong. And, you are blaming death on these people with no comprehension of how deep that divide will go due to these kinds of accusations. It is as ignorant of a statement as it is dangerous.
And, are you ready for the hardest part in this? The part perhaps both “sides” or “parties” better get a real grip on and fast?
YOU NEED PEOPLE TO BE DIFFERENT.
In the situation with the boy that got hit by the car; we ALL needed to be there to make a difference. Even the “Passersby” that didn’t get involved helped in not making the situation more chaotic than it already was by stopping.
Don’t judge me for fighting the overreach of government restrictions or pointing out the biased media! You may not LIKE me on that wall, but you NEED me on that wall. If I allowed the “Lovers” to run the show when that boy got hit, the tears alone weren’t going to save him. “Conspiracies” are only called that until they are proven true.
Don’t judge the Runners, people can’t always decide what to do … they need leadership. So, LEAD!
Don’t judge the Lovers, the Heroes and Fighters can sometimes lose that perspective in their pursuits to save.
Don’t judge the Heroes, these nurses and doctors are seeing people die daily from this, RESPECT that.
Don’t judge the Freezers, sometimes it is better when people don’t act when they don’t know what to do to help.
During 2020, we forgot the most important part of The Breakfast Club – the part of that 80’s Brat Pack film that touched all of us and made it a classic. It was the letter at the end that they wrote together explaining why although they were all different, they were one.
Here’s the new letter from the 2020 Breakfast Club:
Dear Politicians and Media,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice an entire year of freedom for whatever we did wrong. But, you are crazy to try to divide us along party and color lines any longer. You want to see us all in simplest terms. Terms that are convenient for you. Terms that are profitable to you. But, in reality we are all ..
… a fighter … a flagger … a freezer … a lover … a runner … a passerby … and … a hero.
Does that answer your questions?
Sincerely yours,
America
(*The boy that was struck by the car survived the accident with a terribly broken leg)
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