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When did the world get selfish? I keep noticing lately that everyone thinks that they - and their own time - are more important than everyone and everything else around them. I was raised with the principle "treat other people the way you want to be treated" and it gets me hopping mad when I see people wandering around acting like the world revolves around them and them only.
Here is a clear cut and dry example. When you are in a hurry and looking for a parking spot, inevitably there is some family or couple sauntering slowly up the middle of the drive lane oblivious to the rest of the world. It irks me to no end when upon seeing the anxious/annoyed/hurried look on my face they give me that look of "Its my right to be walking here." Its not even the 'making me late' thing that gets to me most; its that I KNOW that when they are behind the wheel of their own car and someone is meandering along in their way, suddenly they have the right to swear and honk because its their time being wasted.
I keep getting this every man for himself vibe wherever I go. Yes, there is good in the world. Half of the people in the world will pause a second to hold the door open long enough that it doesn't swing back in the next person's face. They will stick their arm out of the closing elevator to trip the door sensors open (always hesitant some of the older doors don't open I had the mark to prove it for a couple days), pick up old ladies' dropped shopping lists, and let someone with one item go ahead of their own entire cart of groceries in the store.
But this standard of humanity is seriously shrinking. Letting one car merge in front of you WILL NOT make you late NINTY PERCENT of the time, but how many times has not being let into a line of traffic by a SINGLE CAR made YOU late? If everyone let more people in and did more for the people around them, the chance that someone else will do something nice for you will increase greatly.
Besides, what if that one car that you and ten other people didn't let in was a pregnant woman on her way to the hospital? What if people were actually held responsible not just for their actions but also their lack of actions? What if you got to work and someone said, "That woman you wouldn't let in your lane missed her exit and consequently was late to her first day of work." If people were really held accountable for their choices would they choose to be so self-centered?
The question I ask is really this: People are nuts, but is the Person; decidedly cruel or preposterously oblivious? |
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Posted by jules1984 on 2008-05-23 21:41:56 | Rating: | Views: 33
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