Since when did holding open a door for another person, saying words and phrases like ‘please’, ‘thank you’, ‘no ma’am/sir’ and ‘you’re welcome’, hell even making eye contact when having a conversation with someone just fall from the face of the planet? It baffles me how socially un-groomed society is today. That being said, I can’t sit here and talk about how things were ‘back in my day’ as I’m only at that wonderfully ripe age of 20 gong on 21, however, I feel it it more appropriate to say I’m 20 going on 45.
I was raised on a farm and brought up with good wholesome values. I truly understand the value of a dollar and how it feels to work hard and earn not only your money but whatever else you get in life. I was far from being born or even raised with a silver spoon in my mouth and even in my teenage years nothing was handed to me. As I said, I was raised on a farm. Up before sunrise, working hard to keep yourself afloat. Dessert was taken away if you weren’t just down right sugary sweet polite to everyone you crossed paths with and if we got the tv to work it was a good day.
It wasn’t always fun and it sure wasn’t easy, but I walked away with so much more respect for those older than me and those in a position above mine and so much more self-respect than I ever would have imagined.
I see kids, people my age and even people older than I am, who just don’t seem to get it. To me they’re nothing but rude, spoiled and un-grateful sad sacks who will surely have a hard time once reality decided to pay them a visit. Oh and a visit that will be. See, I work in a place where I see all types of people. From spoiled girls and boys who get upset when they don’t have cell phone service for a minute and roll their eyes when they’re parents don’t give them what they want when they want it, to older men and women who appreciate the small things we do and say. That being said, I do come across teenagers and such who are very respectful and the elderly who are just down right pains in my side, but that is a rare occasion.
I feel like, with all the advances in technology and the way we’re living now, people forget how to be, well people. Holding open a door, saying ‘thank you’, giving up your seat on a bus from someone struggling, whatever is may be isn’t socially required anymore. Conversations, special moments, simple things, they’re almost all done via phones/computers/tablets these days (not saying phones/computers/tablets are bad, because I adore mine to the moon and back). All I’m saying is I feel like it’s okay for people to get away without being sociable and it upsets me.
Where are the days when you would be excited to get the mail? The days where you actually wrote out a letter to someone or even called them on the phone to talk rather than just text? The days where you played outside till the street lights came on instead of going to the mall or sitting around watching tv or surfing the web? Where did home made family dinners go? Putting good test grades on the refrigerator door? The white picket fence?
I truly feel like some days I was just born into thee wrong time period. My boyfriend adores my ideals, I mean what man wouldn’t want a woman who cleans and cooks for him while working full time to support herself and ask for almost nothing but good quality time together and sexual favors in return. We just work so well together, he likes working on his cars all evening after work and I like watching him and having causal conversation with cool drinks. He likes sitting around in the kitchen telling me about his day or what interests him while I cook and clean and at the end of the day we like sitting in bed together to watch a movie or just snuggle before bed (sex thrown in there almost every hour or so, because we are like rabbits). And it’s not that we don’t enjoy the technological luxuries of today, and nothing about this post is saying I hate what technology has become. All I’m saying is we don’t rely on it to keep us happy and entertained.
Now that I look back, I’m not even sure this makes any kind of sense. It’s late, I’ve had a long day, someone is snoring and my sleep aide medication has been kicking in for the last hour or so, but I just felt like I couldn’t sleep without posting something to vent my frustrations.
Goodnight
-kristapher
Perception is Reality 