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What do you think of seeing the old man hunched over in the wind and rain?

On August 24, a short video of an old man squatting in a rainstorm triggered a hot discussion among netizens. According to the picture in the video, the old man dragged the car and walked in the rain with a small bench in the other hand. Many netizens questioned the photographer's eye-catching grandstanding. Can't you find an umbrella to help the elderly when you have time to shoot videos? Some netizens also said that after watching this video, they remembered their parents who lived alone in their hometown. I don't know how they are doing, whether they are caught in the rain in an invisible place, and I can't help but burst into tears when I think about it. After the photographer responded, he didn't bring an umbrella. Suddenly, the rainstorm came and he had to flee everywhere. Inadvertently seeing the old man walking in the rain, he felt very distressed, so he photographed it and sent it online.

My first feeling when I saw this video was loneliness. No matter how you look at it, walking home alone in the rain is lonely. Going out to buy food without a wife, a large part of the reason is that the wife is in poor health and can't accompany him for such a long walk. Moreover, in this case, the elderly will choose to walk home instead of finding a shelter to contact their children and pick themselves up. This is a typical behavior of elderly people living alone whose children work outside the home.

The second feeling is helplessness. Children know that it is necessary to take an umbrella to shelter from the rain when it rains. This is a truth, but why does a 70-year-old man walk home in front of the heavy rain? This is a vivid and habitual performance. This is by no means the first time an old man has been caught in the rain. Once you feel the indifference of the people around you when you need help, you will get used to the feeling of helplessness, and you will think that others will not waste time to help you, so you will be indifferent in the rain and then go home.

To sum up, the situation of the old man bowing in the rain may not only be recorded by the camera this time, but also show the indifference of human nature from the side. In such a heavy rain, it is impossible for only the photographer to be present. A photographer can't help the old man without an umbrella. Is there no one else? Why no one wants to stand up and speak for the elderly for such a long time is also worthy of our deep thinking in front of the screen.