Lack of belonging

Few days back I was returning from my class on my bike. I reached a traffic signal and had to wait for it to go green.  While I awaited my turn, the boys next to me on a bike violated the rules and crossed over while it was still a red signal. Its quite normal to see people getting impatient like that on the road now a days, so I choose not to give any head to it. But the boys hit the front tire of an old motorbike, which was being driven by a man, about fifty, and the man fell to ground. The man was moving because it was a green signal for him and it was the boys who violated the rules. Now in the first place I did feel a little angry because the guys looked back, noticed that the man had fallen and still chose to drove away. What could be the reasons for their such disrespectful behavior? May be they had no reverence for the other people in the society, especially the old. Or may be they were scared that the man will shout at them and abuse them for what seemed to be just a mistake. The second reason resonated loud in my head. Most often, than not, I come across people on the road who disregard the feelings of the person who is sorry for his mistake. Why do we forget that we are humans and we all make mistakes. The man, who fell, did not say a word. He might have had few harsh feelings but there was a chance that those feelings could have melted if the boys had choose to turn back and apologize for their fault, and it was possible only if they felt connected to that man, because we don't hurt people whom we are connected to, even if that connections is 'human connection', which seems quite vague in general or worldly sense these days. Even before this incident, one early morning I saw a man lying on the roadside and a cop was noting down the statement of a biker on his notepad. Next morning in the newspaper we read that the man on the roadside was dead and a passer by reported the police about the dead body. What would happen if the driver of the vehicle, that hit the unlucky man that day, had stopped and took him to the hospital? Was there any chance for his survival? Why do our fears become larger than the significance of someone's life?

How many of you will stop and apologize if you ever made a mistake while driving on the road?  Will you just move on because you think that the other person would never apologize if he did the same mistake?
It is not about what others do, it is about what you choose to do.