What Ever Happened to Kindness? - The World of Less Innocence

10.1.07

There was once a time when virtues were praised in this society. I can remember growing up and being taught life lesson to be polite, nice, courteous, unselfish. I want to know what happened to kindness. Where did we get screwed up were these qualities are no longer admired? We live in a world where rudeness and bad behavior litter the domain of a once innocent existence. In this place, vices infect, dilute and undermine those now hollowed values that were once instinctively fought for. We look to drown ourselves in alcohol, partying constantly, and overdosing on any kind of drug we can find that will alter our feelings and ability to live. Choosing to “live for the now and not give a f#*!”. And if you’re not apart of these activities then you are shunned as an outcast. “Not cool”. “Lame”. “Boring”.

Nice guys finish last. You have to be an asshole. You’ve got to be rude, crude and obscene to get ahead. I have found that to be certainly true. You just can’t be nice, honest and polite and expect to be noticed and respected. It’s like people have to know that you can bitch them out in order to pay attention to you. They have to fear you to do what you ask. You just can’t ask. You must demand; command.

I was once asked what my vice was. And I honestly could not answer immediately. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t do drugs. I believe in being loyal to your partner. I believe in telling the truth. The group of guys that asked me just started laughing and saying that I had to have something. Somehow these qualities are considered as being weak. That I can’t handle certain things just because I’m sober 24/7.

I wonder if we are swirling around the bottom of the bowl. Are we going to consistently degrade? Getting worse and worse. Will we ever realize that by doing what we do now we are only showing kids that this is the way they should act? And they will. Then, they teach there kids. And so on and so on. The same shit that plasters the walls will corrupt and break down the entire building.