Are we too wrapped in our own lives..........Or is there something that I'm missing?

This is a sort of rhetorical question but I do wonder.

So I'm doing a bit of a run, it's 5kms, so wouldn't be very difficult for a the average person, I sent out sponsorship links to friends, family and colleagues who I thought would sponsor me. I'm not doing this for me but to raise a small amount of money for others.

I was obviously wrong to believe that the people I knew were like minded, maybe it's a perspective thing but I am so confused that there has been such little response. The very few people that have donated have been awesome, some high amounts and others lower but that doesn't matter. I am really appreciative for anyone that had donated. In my mind I have linked these donations with peoples acknowledgement of the tough road to recovery that I've had to travel myself.

With those that saw me after the stroke, colleagues that have read my story and people that new me before, I expected a different outcome. I believe that people are too wrapped up on their own misery to look up and see that there are people in need that have not brought it on themselves. I sometimes briefly think, "If only they knew" but then I couldn't wish anything this bad on my worst enemy.

I say to myself that it isn't their fault, they are the people that need help but that doesn't help those that can't help themselves

Well this doesn't deter me, even though it was only be 10 months ago that I couldn't walk more than 100 metres before I had to stop. I know that I have exceeded what the medical profession expected and I will make a full recovery, maybe I've been given the opportunity to see what it's like on the otherside that has changed my perspective, I thought that I was generous by giving to a friend who was doing something for charity, but maybe I was the same as the majority.