Getting Involved

When is it ok to get involved in other peoples business? When I was about eight, I was living in a neighborhood with a house whose owners were rather well known for having the police called on them for things ranging from breaking noise ordinances, to three a.m. drag-racing. One day I was playing in my front yard with my neighbor Tyler, who was just a little older than me. As we were playing we heard yelling, and looked up to see men running from the infamous house. Three of these men jumped into and drove off in a sport car that was pursued by the other four men in a truck. They chased each other around the block twice. Tyler ran into his house and told his dad, Mr. John. As the cars were finishing their third high-speed lap, Mr. John walked into the middle of the road and stopped. The sport car swerved around him and the truck stopped within ten feet of him. One man jumped out of the truck and started trying to explain that the sport car belonged to him and that the three men in it stole it. He was soon silenced by Mr. John, who burned in the reality that they were chasing each other in a residential area with children present. I think that it’s ok to get involved in someone else’s business if it creates danger for you and or those around who aren’t involved. I think people should mind there own business when it involves things that don’t causes danger to people, because people have a right to privacy and to go about things in their own way as long as it isn’t life threatening.