Category: the Rant Board
I usually like people. I hang around them all the time. Hell, you're all people reading this. The thing that gets me about them is that they're so nosey. I'm a private girl, i like my space. the time when I most like it is when I'm on the train. Let me tell you a little story. I was travelling home one day on the train when this old, creepy guy comes up to me and demands some of my attention. He wanted to ask me a question about my vision imparement. Normally I hate this, bbut he seemed like a nice old guy, so I indulged him. "If I go blind," he began, "should I kill myself. You see, I'm ninty..." I'll stop there because the rest isn't relavent. Anyhow, after finished his life story, I was struck by the profound realisation of how selfish we all are as human beings. Here's a guy who is ninty, wanting to kill himself because he was loosing his sight. I can understand the pain that might be causing him, and I did even feel a little sorry for him, but it interests me that as people we expect to have everything just the way we want it. I admit to my own selfish moments. I'm not even sure why I'm angry abbout it. It just seems wrong when we are all animals in the end.
He was speaking hypothetically.And judging by the woefully inadequate help, that newly blind people recieve in Britian alone, I can completely understand his point of view.If you were sighted would you like to go blind at at that age..sadly too many old people do.
Ican also under stand what he's going throu.
I feel sorry for him.
And, i don't think he should kill himself.