Self centredness is the cancer ravaging our society's soul

A good samaritan transporting water to a customer along the busy Thika highway stopped by to help a motorist whose car was already engulfed in fire. [File, Standard]

You are travelling to Nanyuki and just past Naromoru the car ahead of you punctures its wheel. It zigzags and flies off the road and crashes dangerously. You are the first car to get to the accident scene: what do you picture yourself doing? Do you see yourself slowing down, lowering your car window, staring at the wreck and its victims then shaking your head as you drive past to proceed with your journey? Or do you see yourself stopping, loading the injured in your car, and rushing them to the nearest hospital?

Kenyan leaders and citizens alike -are suffocating under the weight of self-centeredness with only scattered pockets of compassion. Even where there is compassion, it still needs to be evaluated to test its authenticity because there is a type of compassion that has selfishness as its centre!