Empathy

Just an observation :

Was standing in a crowd of people on the sidewalk when an ambulance raced by with siren screaming and lights flashing .

Just like when such a thing happened several times on different occasions in the past  I noticed quite a few faces around me looking concerned , their eyes following the vehicle racing away , and I thought they looked, for some moments ,  sad .

For an unknown person whose poor condition and possible suffering was only indicated by our association of ideas with a speeding ambulance .

Leads me to believe that #empathy is a natural human response but often it requires an ambulance to evoke it .

Does not happen , as such , if it's a silent hearse 

Nor a silent person in our life !