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
