What side are you on?

The quote that is stated is not a new concept to our desscusion. it has been stated many time by Loeb. It is reenforcing the fact that people ignore things that dont affect them directly, and unfortunatly this is true of most people. and i am as guilty as some of those people sometimes. just yesterday i was driving home from school and i drove past someone whose car had stalled on the side of the road. I felt really bad and i almost went back to help him but i then thought that someone else would. and sure enough when i had to go someplace and pass him again someone had helped him off the road into a near-by parking lot. i was glad that someone had helped him but kind of mad at myself for not stepping up, because it didnt really affect me if he got home or not.It is going to sound really cheesy but, there is a quote from the movie the princess diares that really stuck out to me. " then i realized how many stupid times a day I use the word I. and probalby all i ever do is think about my self, and how lame is that when there is around seven billion other people in the world?" This quote really reminds me that it is very selfish just to think about yourself.
I asked some children about the quote, and if they would help someone that they didnt know. All three of the children I asked said that they would help. This is because they have all beem raised by parents who have taught them these charitable qualites. I know that this is not true of all familes though. There is families that instead of heierlooms they pass on thier selfish tendencies. It really makes me go back and think if I am one of those people who doesn't go out of my way to help people. I believe that we all need to take a minute and figure out if we are helping or hurting the future generation with they way we behave now.