If you were to see someone being attacked on the street this weekend would you step in to help or walk away?
Good evening hivers, I hope you had a great Sunday... Next, I share with you my participation to the interesting questions that our friend @galenkp proposes us on weekends.
If you were to see someone being attacked on the street this weekend would you step in to help or walk away?
I will answer this question from my own personal experience... On several occasions I have been presented with this type of circumstance where I have had to decide whether to approach to stop the aggression or to distance myself. Sometimes my intervention had positive results, but not always the experience was good, since on several occasions for wanting to help I was involved in a conflict that was alien to my life, after these unpleasant results I came to reflect from the maturity and coherence that not always our intervention is the point of salvation of an aggression, based on this I made the decision to stay out of a conflict, but I would not stand idly by but would ask for help to prevent that aggression ends in a tragedy.
When I observe these types of events I stop for a few seconds and think that there is a big difference between: what we should do, what we want to do and what we can do. These three points have always helped me not to doubt my way of acting. Sometimes we give priority to what we want to do and let ourselves be carried away by our feelings, but in these types of circumstances we must react coherently and reflect on whether we really can and should take that step. I always keep these three pillars in mind when I feel doubts in my mind, there are many ways to help your neighbor who is a victim of aggression, intervening is not a good decision, by asking for help in the right way we become the lifesaver of that emotional tsunami. There are times when we have to act with a cool head and with emotional intelligence, if we let ourselves be carried away by our impulses we can worsen what is already bad.
Thank you very much for visiting my blog, I send you a big hug!
I agree with you, we need to stop and think first, otherwise we may even become the new attacked, haha.
Kudos for having the heart to help or call for help, instead of just standing by. A lot of people don't give a hoot, sometimes it's appalling, especially now when people would rather whip out their phones to film such situations.
Big ups!
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I am glad to know that you agree with me, my priority will always be to help, but being a woman it is more complicated to intervene to solve, there are many ways to ask for help and we will always find the most appropriate at that time... Thank you very much for the visit and support, I send you a big hug!
Exactly!
We should help those in need.
Helping will always be the best and only option, it is something we must never forget.
I believe people is not truly aware about how to actually act in a situation like this one that you're describing. As a woman, as you are, I'd probably act like you have. Nice answer.
You are right friend, being women we are more vulnerable and we do not have enough physical strength to be able to intervene and stop the aggression... Thank you very much for the visit and support, I wish you happy dreams, a hug!
Usually, we're not as fit as a regular man could be. But when we are in a situation as complicated like the one you mentioned we often try to put somethig in order to solve the problem.