Losing control

Hi, here I am responding to Galenkp's weekend commitment. I wanted to share some thoughts that my husband and I discuss at home.

I believe that society is indeed losing control. This statement is based on the loss of values that have long been generating many of the issues that afflict us today. My husband and I talk about these almost daily. Sometimes it even feels difficult to determine what are the common standards by which we should live our lives.

As children we are taught some of them by our parents and others we learn in school and over the years. I do not believe that what is well learned should be so easily forgotten. It doesn't matter where you come from, and I mean he and I were born in different environments, he in the countryside and I in the city, and yet our parents taught us to have similar standards of behaviour, of good people.

I remember that not a day went by when we were taught something new, which we later reaffirmed in schools, and thanks to them we were governed by values such as honesty, Something that many people are currently missing. Some people I know agree that we are experiencing a crisis of values.

We, as parents, have also been passing on these common standards to our daughters, including respect and love for all human beings without distinction, as well animals and nature in general.

My husband and I talk a lot about the proliferation of social indiscipline, delinquency, lies, false morals, hatred... these are things that threaten the proper functioning of societies.

We live in times of globalisation and the development of science and technology. The misuse of social networks has led to a deterioration in the sense of respect. To the point of provoking hatred between peoples, inciting wars that destroy entire societies.

Every day I come home complaining that some people no longer seem to have any idea how to behave in a social environment. The simple act of saying good morning when arriving at a place where there are more people is often omitted. We blame it on the economic crisis in the country today, and not only in our country. We say that these shortages and needs have led to people's insensitivity to the many concerns they have. Is this the problem? What do you think?

I think we must do something about it, and for that, we can rely on teachers, families and even the Internet, if we use it well, in order to save society from its own destruction.

Society is all of us, it is me, it is you. We can never forget that from the moment we are born we have commitments, duties and rights to our societies that we have to fulfil, from whatever position we are in.

Will we be able to re-establish its course?