what is wrong with us..?

It was damn boring at my house during the hols.. I didn't know what to do.. I hence, called
up my friend and asked him, whether he was free.. he replied that he was free and that i was
welcome to visit him anytime that day..

I started from my home.. I went to the railway station at first to buy the ticket.. I waited
in the queue and then i reached the counter.. I asked the person sitting at the counter for
a ticket.. He asked for the money.. I gave him a 10 rupee-note.. Wat happened next was that
the person was screaming at me that it was my "duty/responibility" to bring change.. Highly
embarassed, i gave him the change for the ticket and bought it..

The train came to the platform.. When i tried to enter the train, I found that the entrance
was literally blocked, by a group of people sitting on the floor right near the entrance.. I
politely asked them to get up from the entrance satting that they were causing inconvenience
to the passengers.. The people who were sitting there, retorted with a few remarks which i'm
sure that even my enemy wouldn't have used against me.. I was deeply hurt by their words..
Since, i didn't want to be impolite, i merely left the place and stood in some corner of the
compartment. Some time passed..
Suddenly there was commotion in the compartment.. When I was looking towards the source from where the noise came, I found two men, wrestling each other, in the compartment.. A person standing nearby was telling me, that one of those two
had accidentally trodden on the feet of another, and that was the reason for their fight..
Highly disgusted by this act of theirs, I turned my head towards the opposite side..
Soon, the station where I was supposed to get down came.. When i was moving towards the
door, I found people, stand still like statues, without the slightest bother.. By mistake, I
rammed into a person.. Even after my apologies, the person began to shout at me as if I had
picked his pocket.. I was terribly upset.. Tears came to my eyes..
Finally, i somehow managed to disentangle myself from the crowd, and I got down at the
destination..

Though I had reached the destination.. My happiness had evaporated long before.. It was
instead replaced an uncontrollable rage..

Why are people treating me like dirt..? Why aren't they polite..? Don't they know decency..? Do they have the right to insult others using vulgar words..?

Stories of the trains in Washington D.C, as narrated by sister, came to my mind.. In the
United States, When a person sitting by the window seat gets up from his/her seat, the
people sitting nearby, automatically get up and leave way for the person.. She, who was used
to similar brutal treatment in the chennai trains was highly impressed by the decency shown by the people of the United States..

Wat is exactly wrong with us..? Indian culture, has always held decency in high esteem.. Why is it that our people are behaving like this..? Doesn't decency have any value..? atleast in this city..?