Just another thought

Often I ask myself, why do some people ignore that is obvious.
I overheard some people talking in the lobby of a hotel I was staying in, they were discussing about some party they had to go in the evening. There a particular girl was looking very oblivious, very calm from outside but I could tell she was crying inside. She was sad. Apparently her friends did not share my belief. They were constantly forcing her to go along with them that night, but I knew well, all she needed that moment was a tight hug from a close someone and just a few consoling words. But they all missed the depth of sadness in her eyes, all of them looked at her but I am afraid none of them registered the acute pain in her eyes.
Next morning, I found the same pair of eyes with twinkle in them filled with joy, on the first page of the morning paper. Irony here was that this beaming picture of the young lady was marking her tragic fate. In the lines below the picture was described that she committed suicide at 4pm last evening which was I think just an hour after I saw her in the lobby.
Till this day I regret not going to her and trying to help her. But again I think whether she would have accepted my help? This makes me think how her friends were unable to see what I saw in just a glimpse of her. She could have been saved if her friends had paid a little more attention towards her. How big a difference they could have made by observing just a little more?
This is a problem with most of us today; we tend to have become too careless and carefree. We do not acknowledge obvious changes but dig for that which is irrelevant. If we pay due attention to everything we see, if we go on till the last detail we could help avoid such incidents, our friends and family deserve this from us.