Mom, Where Are You?

This article was extracted from my early NetEase blog. NetEase Blog is no longer operating, but looking back, these words are still quite interesting, so I decided to move them over as intact as possible. This is mainly kept as a record; after all these years, the quality of the text, images, and links may all have been affected.

This article was originally published on May 31, 2009. I was about 20 years old at the time and was in college.

Today, during an unexpected outing, I saw a scene that surprised me. In the square in front of a certain supermarket in Nanqiao, a little girl around three years old was wandering there alone. At first, I did not pay much attention, but when I passed by again, the child already had a slight crying tone in her voice, calling out "Mom, Mom." It looked like another child who had become separated from her family. What surprised me was that when she ran past the security guard crying, the security guard had no reaction at all. Most passersby also had no reaction. Occasionally a few people turned back to look, but they quickly hurried away…

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I could not help thinking: what exactly has happened to people nowadays? Why was there not even one person willing to lend a helping hand??!!…