I have noticed a growing number of things in our society that have been troubling me, as well as many other people my own age. We have so few morals anymore, so much lack of respect, not just for people older than us - which is actually an opposite issue - but just for other people. Our government is TERRIBLE, full of people that are out for nothing more than themselves and re-election. It's sickening to me. People of higher stature, instead of helping others out and using their positions for good, they push nothing more than their own agenda - hardly listening to the people and what they really want, and walking on others to get to the top. Where we are going as a country isn't even a road paved with good intentions, we can't even disguise it as that anymore.
I remember within the last 20 years that when something happened to your neighbor or colleage, that you would visit them, send them your condolences, make a covered dish for their family, do SOMETHING that showed that you cared or were concerned... I can't remember the last time I saw a kind gesture like that out of someone. We don't even THINK to do it, just send them a card or some flowers and call your duty done.
What happened to the times when people would be taken under the wing of another, when people were willing to fight for others out of moral obligation rather than run away b/c they're worried about getting caught in the cross-fire? What happened to mentoring people as a social obligation instead of being something that's for young kids in troubled neighborhoods or church groups? When people could take constructive criticism, or when people had some freaking tact in what they said or did so as not to offend others...
The selfishness of our society now adays astounds me. I cant even begin to explain how I feel about relationships, marriages, siblings, friends...this is just about society in general. IDK, maybe I'm just a dreamer, but I don't understand when people are mean for no reason, or for personal and selfish gain. There is no greater happiness than knowing you have given happiness to another. There is nothing more fufilling than knowing that anothers happiness began with a nice thing that you did or a compliment that you gave. For some reason, people now seem to think that their happiness starts and ends with "self". MySELF, yourSELF.... it's all about self. Why can't we just think of others?
I remember within the last 20 years that when something happened to your neighbor or colleage, that you would visit them, send them your condolences, make a covered dish for their family, do SOMETHING that showed that you cared or were concerned... I can't remember the last time I saw a kind gesture like that out of someone. We don't even THINK to do it, just send them a card or some flowers and call your duty done.
What happened to the times when people would be taken under the wing of another, when people were willing to fight for others out of moral obligation rather than run away b/c they're worried about getting caught in the cross-fire? What happened to mentoring people as a social obligation instead of being something that's for young kids in troubled neighborhoods or church groups? When people could take constructive criticism, or when people had some freaking tact in what they said or did so as not to offend others...
The selfishness of our society now adays astounds me. I cant even begin to explain how I feel about relationships, marriages, siblings, friends...this is just about society in general. IDK, maybe I'm just a dreamer, but I don't understand when people are mean for no reason, or for personal and selfish gain. There is no greater happiness than knowing you have given happiness to another. There is nothing more fufilling than knowing that anothers happiness began with a nice thing that you did or a compliment that you gave. For some reason, people now seem to think that their happiness starts and ends with "self". MySELF, yourSELF.... it's all about self. Why can't we just think of others?
