A similar sight can be seen near Holland Village where an old woman is selling sweets she makes herself and well it certainly doesn't look like appealing goods, but I reckon they do this out of needs rather than begging on the street, is it not?
And before anybody is going to start a flame comparing the locals and the non-locals, in Holland Village I saw both ignoring this old woman actually.
Certainly having seen this tendency, made me hesitate as well at the beginning to buy her "goods" as unfair as it might sound... out of pity and conciousness calling if you will..., so I too walked pass her at the beginning but then I returned to her having my conciousness bugged me and it felt strange at the beginning when I saw people were looking with a weird look... But then at the end, I took the same stance and just didn't care back
I am quite bewildered to be honest to see people wouldn't sort of take pity and acted as if they don't care, as if one dollar is going to make them poor... Or is it that the current society has turned to be either selfish or paranoid to be afraid of strangers to show they care which is probably considered to be a weakness nowadays, or paranoid of questioning strangers' intentions...
Or is it the idea that there is no use in helping these people out of the perception that they might use the money for something of ill-use or such?
Again, I would call that paranoia actually...
What do you reckon?
