Character: Responsibility

Recently, I was on walking on auto-pilot mode and followed the crowd through the lights across Wellington St in front of the train station. I was thinking of other things. Halfway across the road, I suddenly realized for myself that the pedestrian light was actually Red. Most of the crowd just kept walking and seemed totally ignorant to the fact that all of us had just broken the law.

Makes me think that:
•We can all too easily let the crowd make our decisions for us.
•Things don’t feel so wrong if ‘everyone else is doing it too’―even if they are wrong.
•We have a responsibility as individuals to be alert, do our own thinking and make our own decisions.