You may have seen the freezing child experiment. If not, take a look – it shows just how apathetic we can be. More unnerving than the video was the introspection it triggered within me - if I walked past a freezing child in the street would I stop to help? Of course, we could give a variety of excuses to justify why not to – it’s not practical, it could be a hoax, life is busy. The critical question, however, is the level of human sensibility we embody. As a kid, I religiously avoided trips into Central London because the sight of homeless people was too uncomfortable. Later on, as a university student, I moved there and it became a daily sight – I became desensitised and learnt to live with it. Is that acceptable? Is it good to be able to comfortably live with the pain of others? Nowadays I feel that kind of apathy is a major block to my spiritual progression.