"Detached from the Ovary with no Overseer!"
"Detached from the Ovary with no Overseer!"
April 10, 2018 - by: Ahmad McCray |
This picture is of pastor Michael McBride, a representation of the missing overseer
Recent Event
April 8th, 2018, at Potomac Mills, VA, I arrived at the mall around 1:34 p.m. I was there to help my girlfriend purchase and deliver balloons to a store, in which the parents had reserved to celebrate their child's birthday party. After the delivery I sat in a rest area just watching the moving crowd. Suddenly, a little boy that has passed by my area more than once now stood out to me. Don't get me wrong I am usually the first person to concede to the curiosity of approaching a aimless-looking individual, but, in this moment I sat at a distance just hoping the child was operating in the sights of his parents. The little boy wondered for minutes and minutes, and not to be harsh but not one person was in the slightest curious of where this young man belonged. Their were eyes that starred at screens, eyes that roamed through bags, eyes looking up at moving images, and even eyes tasting the meal that has been sat in front of them, but no eyes (that I am aware of) glanced at the boy and wondered...where do you need to be off to?
The little boy was eventually assisted by mall security and his parents were located shopping in a store, a great deal away from where he wondered. This event brought to attention that in some cases children are completely overlooked, but why?
"In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars." - Amit Kalantri
 
A video on YouTube about a report by ODN news, in London, at Victoria Place shopping center shown that as two young girls by the names of Uma and Maya who are seven and five were experimentally placed in the shopping center to test if people would neglect to attend to, or aid the children. The experiment lasted hours, the news team reported to have had at least 616 people walk past the children and neglect them entirely, only once did a person stop to assist the children. Before closing the broadcast the reporter said, "Probably people are afraid of others perceptions of why they're are stopping to interact with the child," to then argue against that claim by saying "an adults instincts to help a child should supersede public perceptions." This got me curious, should the fear of public opinions stop people from acting within their own right when they acknowledge a public issue? I believe that topic should be held for another blog. I am aware that one event happened in America while another occurred in the United Kingdom, but, the fact that these events occur in different nations and is mildly or not reported at all is my inference.
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Overseer - a person who supervises others, especially workers.
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This blog post was really interesting to read. I think a lot of the problems mentioned here stem from the bystander effect. The diffusion of responsibility stopped people from attempting to help these children who were left alone. Although, you would think that one person out of 616 would try their best to help. Regardless of what the general public might think, we would all want to think that people should go out of their way to assist a helpless child. But, it doesn't always go that way, especially when there is a crowd around an individual.
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