There are so many times when i feel i should reach out. Yet some unknown thing holds me back. Although sometimes it is not an unknown thing, it is what our society has become. One sticks in my mind. 
I took a picture of them. ( yes I too photograph the world around me) 
Two teens, standing on a corner in the driving sleet of cold gray winters day. one crying her eyes out, the other trying to give comfort.

I felt the need to pull my car over to the curb and approach them to see if I could offer assistance in any way. I even did pull over. But I could not go over to them. Fear stopped me, not fear of them, not fear of the unknown.

Fear of the reaction to a middle aged man approaching teens that he is a stranger to. 
It still makes me sad I did not have the courage to see if I could help.