Are we becoming selfish?

You come across many news reports in which the feeling is that we are losing the sensitivity towards other people and becoming more selfish.Take the case of a lady suffering in the neighbourhood and the family next door does not have any idea about that,leave aside the help to be provided to the family. This is more so in so called developed cities called as metros. The development for the benefit of the people is very important but at the same time the emotions and the sensitivity towards our fellow beings should not be diluted which has unfortunately happened in the last fifteen- twenty years. This has not done good to anybody but all suffer because you need the supportive hand of the other people at one or the other time. The people have become so much focused or involved in their own well being that others do not have in place in their life. Why to talk of others, even the nearest relations are being forgotten and visiting people in grief is more of a formality than real moral support to them.Take the case of two sisters who remained confined to their rooms for almost six months or more and their brother did not bother about them at all.
There may be many examples in the mind of many of you but the recent one in which a national player was thrown out of a running train and unfortunately no passenger came forward to help her, was heart rendering and now she is struggling to survive in this world. The government agencies would have visited her in the hospital and announced some compensation due to the media pressure but today nobody remembers her including the active and alert media of the country.It has been observed many times that after an accident on the road the angry people will block the road but there will be very few who would really be extending help to the injured person. During the so called strikes, the agitators will forcibly shut down the shops and other establishments including the plying of the buseswithout even comprehending the repercussions,like many people have lost their lives because they could not be taken to the hospital in time. The ones  who loose their near and dear ones cry their hearts out but others do not have any regrets about the sin they had committed.
If the society has to live peacefully then the sentiments should be given space to be expressed not only in the newspapers and the books but in the day to day life also.We must learn to value others existence and importance as well. Nobody will be able to survive alone on this planet because as a human being you need to share your joys and sorrows with people. We are heading towards being alone and if it is not stopped a day will come when we shall go at a distance from each other that will make life meaningless.
I shall end this by sharing the theme of one of the functions in a school.The theme was"Shoonya se Shoonya tak," in which it was shown that the man was born alone and then had the family, society and now again he is heading towards being alone in the race of achieving infinity.The hero in the play goes to moon and was very happy in the company of the robots. He worked day and night and one day when he discovered some thing which he wanted, there was nobody to share his happiness because the robots were not programmed to share the emotions. If we lose the emotions,sentiments and the sensitivity, then we are no less than those robots and as mentioned earlier, robots do not share the emotions and the sentiments.Thus human beings need a selfless society for a friendly and peaceful existence.