Loosing our values - doesn't anybody care?

 

 What a Change?

 

 Some few years ago, growing up, we were taught to respect the elderly. I mean, we were taught to offer our seats to the elderly in public transports, offer them help in carrying their loads and so on and so forth. Those days were phenomenal. Unfortunately, few years down the lane, there is a dramatic change.

 

These days all we seem to focus on are their "rights". It's good and all that we teach these kids about their rights but the world would be a better place if we could teach them about the rights of others as well as respect for others. 

 

 Kids don't offer their seats to the elderly anymore because it is "their right". Teaching a child to offer his or her seat to the elderly might sound "old-fashioned", but then, most of the times, the truth sounds old-fashioned.

 

With all the "rights" going about these days with so little responsibilities, it's not surprising at all that the younger generation act the way they do towards the older generation. What we all seem to forget is that, one day soon, we will all find ourselves at the other side of the coin.

 

We , the younger generation of today, will be the older generation of tomorrow. In our own interest as a people, we should go back to the old ways.

 

After all, what is the essence of right if there is no responsibility attached to it?