Wise people say that human beings are only animal who think about the outcome of an action before acting and act likewise. This is the thin line between human and animal behaviour.
Are we crossing the line a bit too often and venturing too deep in the animal world? So rapidly and deeply that we have fears of becoming one of them? I will just share a few examples and ask you if I am thinking too negatively.
Every one loves a good joke, once upon a time people knew that every one does not shares same sense of humor, so they used to judge the taste of others before cracking a joke in public place, especially places like office, school or college. I joined a Medical Transcription Course last year; I have met quite a handful of people there who have left me a little confused, if they are human beings or animals wearing human skin. In my entire life I have never seen people discussing obscene things so openly and loudly, through out the day. I truly have left them behind with a deep suspicion that they are not mentally sane.
Just like that, I believe in today’s world most of the people do corrupted things not because they don’t have enough, but because they want more than they need. This is one vice absent in animals though. It’s found in only human beings and its escalating.
Another horrible thing is raising cruelty against children by adults. By children I mean any one who is below 21 years of age. In place of protective tendency for them they are being abused and often deliberately endangered. Like bombing in places full of children.
All I can hope for myself is I never join them. They are so many in numbers that I sometimes suspect that I walk an untrodden path.
Trisha-I do think common courtesy and sensitivity are vanishing and being replaced by a new version of "honesty"-one which disregards the feelings and values of others. I don't think it's insanity, more a distorted idea of freedom.
ReplyDeletedear np,
ReplyDeletei think you have framed it right. absolutely right. now when i think, i believe we are seeing it in every sphere of modern life.
thanks for giving it a better explanation.
I agree dear didi. But there are not enough people left to care for present and future generations.
ReplyDeleteBut we have to try hard and hope for the best.
Thanks.
dearest brother,
ReplyDeleteyes, and we have to do it ourselves and influence our dear ones to do the same.
with lots of affection,
didi
If you "love" and "respect" yourself, then only you can "love" or "respect" others. That is one of your topics. To "love" you need "respect" and in true "respect" we have "love" somewhere hidden in it.
ReplyDeletePeople now a days "just don't care" for anyone and though they very much care and concern about their own "good", they neither know how to "love" nor how to "respect". Thus the "good" they try to do for them is in "goods" only, no peaceful mannerism can be found in these so called human beings.
That's our truth. That's we are going to live with. Mannerism is now a new term for "chivalry" for men and women and that's why back-dated. Mannerism also nowadays considered a kind of showing "weakness" to most of the so-called learned people. What a shame!