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Guilts

You’re already too late to sit on a queue at an NTC office. You rush through the gate and quickly take the last place in the queue. It’s been like forty minutes now and you’ve only moved half the queue. After some minutes, more people add the queue behind you. It’s been an hour now and the rage is killing you. While you in a temper and yet a blank mind, you realize that an old man is on the queue behind you coughing badly. You look backwards. He is old, very old. He is only able to stand and walk with the support bars at the sides. In a few tenths of seconds, he starts to puke and puts his hands around his stomach. He starts to feel dizzy and is feeling rather too difficult to stand in the queue any longer. You ask him if he’s alright and if he any needs help. He replies that he is feeling very bad. He says, “Can you please take me to the clinic? I’m feeling hard to breathe. Please.” You are in no condition to leave this queue and re-join this later so you call the guards and let the...