proia

So i was riding the bus around Los Angeles today... really weird in a digusting kind of way. I was the only white person on the bus. It didn't bother me, of course, but i was just wondering why all the white people i see can afford cars while all the mexicans, persians, asians, south americans, blacks are riding the bus (many of them homeless). Then an elderly woman got on and all the seats were full so everyone just sat there and stared at her. I offered her my seat and then everyone stared at me like i was a fucking alien or something. They all knew i wasn't from L.A. because nobody who lives in this god-forsaken city has a shred of kindness or empathy for other people left.
"I might as well go out for mine, cuz everyone's going out for theirs"
Something about this place makes people so cold to human interaction. You walk down the street (the only people who walk anywhere except the tourist spots are, apparently, me and the homeless) and people are scared to look each other in the eyes. Scared to smile at each other or start a conversation. They have the most incredible chance with all of these different cultures converging in one place, i don't know how or why it's turned out so badly, though.