Now, I realize that I have a tendency to repeat myself, however, I also have realized that people have a tendency to drive me crazy to the point of repetition. Has anyone realized that we have the same poor habits that they managed to develop as children? Sharing, kindness, being polite.. it seems that no matter what, we've still tainted these thoughts and ways of life. I've never really understood what is so difficult about holding a door open for someone or thanking someone for picking up a pencil you dropped. What's the big deal with just going out of your way for someone. Going out of your way to lend someone a dollar, a hand, or just an ear does not take as much energy as you think. Just by holding the door open for the person behind you, is all you have to do to put a smile on someone's face. Class in America, to me.. no longer exists.. and if it does, then it is endangered.
I've recognized the lack of class in America at a young age. My father and I were always staying up and watching old movies with Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Maureen O'Hara, and Katherine Hepburn all dressed in their best. In these movies, there was a certain essence of elegance that engulfed the actors and actresses. There was a certain beauty to these men and women, and even the general concept of their movies were remarkable. Nowadays, it doesn't matter what colors you are wearing, but it matters how little you have on. Women today lack a sense of class... and the children are picking up our bad habits. Most men apparently WANT a women who lacks class.. and yet again.. this social accepting thing falls towards our children. Maybe what I am hoping for is a fairytale, but maybe, it just takes me speaking up to make at least one person aware of how horribly things have changed.
Just imagine things how they used to be for one moment, please. All the men in suits, and all the women in dresses. you got paid 25 dollars a week, and that was a LOT of money. More people were concerned with elegance and grace, then being concerned with "showing some leg" or shooting up some building. Don't get me wrong, there will always be those select scum bags, but back then, life was better.. life was happier. Perhaps this was just the way things happened back then, and perhaps things will never change for the better, now that everyone's low-brow. I have faith, though. I know that someone, somewhere, probably understands what I'm getting at by all of this. I'm not being unrealistic. I know that things have changed. Style has changed. I get that.. but does that mean that our characters have to change as well? Our values have to be subject to this change as well? I mean, okay people, you don't have to go around saying "golly gee!" and "By golly!", but is there really harm in opening up the car door for your girlfriend every once in awhile? What happened to courting a woman? I just wish things weren't as sloppy as they are now is all. So call me unrealistic, I just want people to be classy again.
I know this was a short post, but I had to change my topic because someone else just posted one on what I was half way through writing about. Nevertheless, I think I've made my point. I was thinking that I'm just talking to myself, considering this is such an outrageous concept now, but who knows, maybe I'm not the only one left who wishes that the world had a little more class.
Click here, it explains what I'm thinking.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. --Katharine Hepburn
I agree with you to a point. There is a lack of class amongst the youth of today and alot of people, but I wouldn't necessarily just say these times are bad and those were the 'good ol days.' See I never lived in days where everyone had class and everyone was proper. There are people with class today, and there were people that were classless back then. It may seem like that the ol days were when everyone was respectful and today it's filled with young punks, but I think it really evens out in comparison. I do agree that there is a decline in societies standards, but I think there were always the "classless." Look at the 60's. I think this generation has great standards compared to the 60's and the hippies. Maybe it's cuz I hate hippies, or maybe it's because that was the erea of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Now all that still goes on today, but it's not what is being glorified. The hippie movement was glorified for changing the ways. That's when I would say a moral decline began. This rant keeps drifting so I'm going to end it with an actual point: Society today is a "Me First" society. But I don't necessarily think those Clarke Cable films portrayed everything going on in those days. Just like I don't think gang violence portrays everything going on in ours. There was classless, disrespectful people in those days like today, and there's still those class, hold the door open people in today's society. This can be easily forgotten when it seems like all we see is the punk ass kids, but I do believe society overall still has standards. This rant is ADD at it's finest
ReplyDeleteNo I wasn't saying that there weren't any people left who had class, I was just saying that people need to take notice to the fact that the number of classy people is dwindling. I said there were always those select scumbags, and a lot of those older movies did portray the negatives going on in those days as well. All I'm saying is, what was "scandalous" back then is a normal for today, and it's a damn shame. I know that today's society is a "Me First" society, I just wish it wasn't like that. There are always classless and disrespectful people and there probably always will be. I was simply stating that there are way more now then there were back then. Back then, if you were a kid and you talked back to your parents, it was game over. Today you hear about 12 year olds beating up an 80 year old man just because. Stuff like that sickens me. I'm just really sad at how downhill everything is going, is all.
ReplyDeleteGosh, Dave, your comments sure are swell! lol
i miss the days when a parent could be a parent... My kid is gonna hate me, but then thank me later in life. I am way to hungry to make a long, thought out comment in reply, I may do so later.
ReplyDeleteGarsh, Sarah, your blogs sure are swell :D
Haha dude, that's why I'm not rewriting that one post I started. I'm starving and still at work, so I'll write it later. :D
ReplyDelete;D Golly Gee, Dave!
Hey dude, okay that's understandable. I'll be looking forward to it :D
ReplyDelete:D Golly Gee Whiz, Sarah!