tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post3882435291538538136..comments2024-03-29T03:43:45.977-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: What The Barber SaidDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-56158749145456933072011-12-18T13:16:22.455-05:002011-12-18T13:16:22.455-05:00I frequently lament the loss of common courtesy an...I frequently lament the loss of common courtesy and am doing my best to drill it into my kids' heads. Great post.Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10791317184998122691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-46048315757482571512011-12-17T23:23:02.684-05:002011-12-17T23:23:02.684-05:00This is a great reminder to all of us. Thank you!This is a great reminder to all of us. Thank you!Sunshine and Shadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10533311026100989243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-31196074810533500272011-12-17T18:12:42.682-05:002011-12-17T18:12:42.682-05:00Great posting, Dave.
I think that our society (ma...Great posting, Dave.<br /><br />I think that our society (maybe more than Canada and the US) has lost it's sense of community, of caring for other's needs. Now it's all me, me, me. You hit it on the head with all the "i" products- they reinforce the self above all else, others be damned.<br /><br />Over the past 20 or so years the sense of entitlement has become so embedded it's become a freakin' birthright. *Shudder* How did this happen??<br /><br />Common courtesy seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird (along with it's cousin common sense), consideration of others is passe, and antiquated notions of treating others the way in which you would like to be treated have been mothballed. And left those of us with chronic health conditions and disabilities reeling, fighting to be treated with respect, caring, and dignity. <br /><br />For how can we be treated with any form of decency if decency is no longer the rule of the day? <br /><br />Seems we have been left to our bases instinct- survival. And survival of the fittest is the new rule of the day. Which leaves me totally screwed, for I am neither fit nor totally able any longer to fight.<br /><br />Kindness costs us nothing. Consideration is so easy. Our humanity has not changed. While we may rail on and on about our special uniqueness, we still coexist. Wouldn't it make sense to make our lives better instead of worse?<br /><br />Taking the brief moment to stop and consider other's needs doesn't place a huge strain our own time. Come to think of it, if our time is so strapped that we can't think of anything but ourselves then we really need to examine our life balance, don't you think? <br /><br />There should be no excuse for treating others poorly.Jazzhttp://fightinthefibro.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-54892806379891735562011-12-17T12:45:47.686-05:002011-12-17T12:45:47.686-05:00I totally agree Dave!
Some of your posts about h...I totally agree Dave! <br /><br />Some of your posts about how people treat each other are about what my mother called "common courtesy" - we have lost it in all this "I-ness". Time to reclaim it!<br /><br />ColleenColleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-58183013911034131202011-12-17T05:58:58.965-05:002011-12-17T05:58:58.965-05:00(I !!!!) Love this post, well written - and (you, ...(I !!!!) Love this post, well written - and (you, as I have enough time not just to say u! are) spot on! xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-71430294256289602762011-12-17T03:32:10.664-05:002011-12-17T03:32:10.664-05:00Dave you are so right again! Sometimes I catch mys...Dave you are so right again! Sometimes I catch myself getting very impatient in conversations or interactions just because there is the next task to do, the next bus to catch or the next leisure thing to do. <br /><br />Everything is getting faster and one has to be more flexible in planning ahead. You do not know the timetable of public-transportation any longer. You look it up in your i-thing. If you are not in time for an appointment you just call and tell you are late. You do not try as hard as before the i-thing age to get there in time. Sometimes it is easier to just call someone or write an e-mail than trying to talk to them while sitting in front of them (happend to my while talking to a psychiatrist because of my sleeping problems, three times he went out to talk on his mobile phone - grrrr).<br /><br />And I hate that I have to listen to all those dumb conversations from people using the same public transportation that I use. Just because there is a flat-rate you do not have to do conversations "what he said - and what she said - and I am here now - and what she did wear" loudly so that everyone else has to listen.<br /><br />Latley I think that only those people should have mobile phones who really really need them.<br /><br />And I very often have to tell myself to be patient with others and myself. Just because our world is getting faster and faster I dont have to follow that trend. I am naturally slow...<br /><br />:-)<br />JuliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com