For background, I live in a country where I do not speak the language.
I was walking home from work the other day with my headphones in. As per usual, I was just focused on getting home, I didn’t notice a silver SUV back into a kid until my brain processed that the child was on the asphalt and bleeding heavily from a head injury.
My brain was very slow in processing that this kid was bleeding on what had been until this moment a very normal, sunny day.
I’ll never forget his grandmother seeing him, picking up his limp body and wailing. The kid’s eyes didn’t open, he didn’t move at all. The puddle of blood was just massive by this point, and the car driver did not get out of the car.
The next day the area was cleaned, the white lines of the parking lot repainted, and everyone is just acting as if no one potentially just died there the day before.
I’m at work like usual and only told two people (partner and best friend) what happened.