A girl my age was just sprawled on the road, barely blinking and her leg… God, her leg…A chunk of skin, about the size of a hockey puck was ripped out, and you could see her entire bone. There was blood. No one was running to her. She was moving (barely), but the police decided to direct traffic instead of talking to her. The other girl on the other scooter was sitting in the side of the road crying. Everyone watched. She was alive and moving, but still limp in the middle of the road, breathing in the exhaust from cars being directed feet from her head.

I am still horrified.

……….!!!!!!?????!!!!?????

I didn’t know what to do, go hold her hand, go tell her it was ok… I was so confused. I don’t know if culturally this is how accidents are handled, where everyone has to remain reserved until an ambulance comes.. 10 minutes. It didn’t come for 10 minutes of her anguish and not one person, by the time I had arrived there, went to just hold her hand. I feel like I wasn’t human tonight for not comforting her. I am ashamed for being as stoned cold as the Taiwanese in this moment. There was nothing medically I could do for her, but there is something to be disgusted about for watching a poor girl suffer in public. Does no one have a fucking soul? Do I not have a fucking soul? Who was more paralyzed? She or her damn audience?

I will never ride a scooter, and I refuse to watch a human being hurt like that again, like she’s some sort of road kill, forgetting the civil responsibility of my nature, whether I’m in Taiwan or not, whether I can give medical help or not.

I mean…. fuck.