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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I submit that these attributes are still most common, I find them with most everyone that I deal with, from the excellent medical folk we are priveledged to have at hand, to the folk who serve me at Bunnings, BCF, the dentists, the optometrist, in fact everywhere....what we all fall victim to is to find and focus upon an exception which in these days of internet and social media is indeed a possibility...however do not let these exceptions blind you to the overall decency of people rememberering always that the media delights in presenting bad folk to anger a growing cynicism that they really seem intent on promoting.
The reality is that when we were young we were often lucky enough to only see a perfect world ...one that was usually presented by Hollywood in movies that somehow over years we transform from pure fiction to a reality that in fact never existed but we then measure the present against the mythical notions of how the world is...not everyone lived in a house like the "Leave it to Beaver" family but so many think that family was the norm..if you think it thru the "Good old days" are often an illusion that we now remember as the way it was...it wasn't and never was.
alex
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Alex, I totally agree with your views regarding the general level of service we receive, but, having lost my mother at the age of one I have no illusions regarding perfect family life.
I volunteered with a youth service organisation for more than 20 years and worked with young people from aged 8 right through to young adults at 26. My comments regarding respect and responsibility for one’s actions relate to my observations of the behaviour of a percentage of today’s young people that lack those qualities. Sadly I suspect this is more to do with the lack of the same qualities in their parents in how they parent them, than in the young people themselves. This in itself I feel stems from a consumerism driven society that has misplaced priorities on what in life is really important to children - love, security and the time to devote to them. Raising children well should be viewed as the single most important thing you can do for them, and for society in general.
Please don’t construe from this that I have a down on youth, or society, I am at an age where I just observe a percentage of both with sadness for how it could have been, whilst feeling powerless now on how to contribute to improving things.