When someone approaches you and asks what you think about a subject do you answer with something off the wall or do you think about what the person has asked you and answer with an intelligent reply? Do you respond to a query with an answer to the dilemma or do you just mouth some niceties and go on about your way? What if that person were your child? Or someone else's child... Perhaps what they're asking seems unimportant or trivial to an adult who has disconnected with how is was to be at that age or stage...
I write about this today because of a headline that caught the eye of a friend on social media who "shared" it with those of us on his "list". The story of how an attendant on a school bus was assaulted by some middle school students. There were a few comments in relation to my friend's shared headline that I'm sure were sincere but I realized as I read these things how estranged each of us has become from the other. How our society is crumbling in the wake of a generation of human beings that haven't had the luxury of growing up where you can rely on others being there when it counts. There are some people like that around - but not nearly enough.
The most important duty we have as humans is to make sure the following generations will be able to survive what comes. It is important not to forget that these things are not exclusive to academic and financial achievement, but also include how to treat other human beings. Without being able to respect one another we will be lost forever to our own misguided leanings. We must be relentless in showing the way and teaching others with our own actions is the most efficient means of doing so.
Stop and think before you react. We can effect the way the world evolves in tiny ways that become a much larger movement. Life can be a better place while we're here. Do your part.
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