Thursday, February 2, 2012

New Age?

Lately it has become painfully aware to me how little we care of about others or ourselves. Regardless of whether you are at your place of business or someone else's. On the road or in your home (or someone else's for that matter). The customer is no longer right and we are told to trust no one.
We don't care, and it's acceptable, that we don't give anyone full attention anymore, and splitting your attention between the phone, tv or computer and an actual person is the norm. NO WONDER EVERYONE HAS ADD! Or ADHD or whatever it is called now. Used to be you'd have your kid go run around outside for a little while and then do what your told, now it's an excuse for anyone who would rather be doing something else... so they are day dreaming about that rather than the moment. Who wouldn't rather be doing something else? Grass is always greener right?
We have become a throw away society, and not just of goods but of people. We don't keep anything that's older than a couple of years and if you do, well what's wrong with you? We need the newest phones and electronics, all so we can throw away people. The more "social media" we "consume" the less social we are, and the more we watch tv the more we decide it's acceptable to be cranky and yell at people and be a diva.
I wonder what my kids will have to endure, what kind of society they will be faced with. It scares me a little to think about it. Hard work and determination, family and friends, are no longer cherished but discarded.
I wonder if we all got off FB, Pinterest (my new fav) and our blogs for just a few hours, dare I say half the time we spend of them now, how much of a difference it would make in our lives, our society.


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