I've been on this "old days" kick. Sort of longing for the simpler days. More than anything - recently I've been annoyed with the direction language and respect have gone! Vocabulary is dwindling in place of crass words and phrases. Kids stand in the middle of the road and play chicken with cars because they don't want to look like an idiot when their pants fall off when the run to the sidewalk because they're too baggy...kids who fling cigarettes at your passing car, again, young girls/teenagers - who talk so loudly and so foul with each other as they describe the way they'd rather have had a one-night-stand with the boy because then they could start going with another boy. It's disgusting. Walking into a building and the man in front of you not holding the door open, or the young child who sasses his mother. Not that I'm exempt from sassy children...I just think we as a society have gotten lazy and just don't have time to teach children how to behave, how to speak - we don't have the vocabulary to be an example to them, either. My son didn't know the difference between "persistent" and "perseverance" these are words that are slowly falling out of the every day language of society as a whole.
Why am I so attracted to that day? I was reading in the Proclamation to the World yesterday and it hit me. In a moment I felt like I was "missing" life before earth. Spirit sons and daughters KNEW and WORSHIPED God as their Eternal Father. We make covenants, we bow our heads and with one word of agreement, accept conditions, we don't lay out our own, we don't negotiate, we bow our heads and agree.
Yep, it's a long ramble, to be sure, it's only a part of what I feel. I don't mean to go to a place in time where women are subservient to their spouses, but a place where the father is the head of the household and rules it in love and righteousness, where the children learn love and respect from both parents and crassness is not acceptable because a parent is just too tired to discipline, or too guilt-ridden to say no. A place in time where we're still humbled by the things in life and don't take our luxuries as necessities.
Stepping down from the soap box. now.
4 comments:
There's a happy medium there.... and somewhere along the way, the "world" took over... yep...
I agree with your thoughts wholeheartedly Heidi. We have become a society filled with people who are very self-indulgent.
It's almost as if Women's Equality has blurred the lines between our innate roles as men an women. I feel there as been a loss of respect for men and their roles in our society. Therefore, there really is no one left to lead and guide anymore.
So sad.
Totally agree too.
I was going to answer "Tru Dat-Tru Dat" but decided against it. *wink*
I agree! I agree!
Sometimes I get so frustrated because it seems no matter what I try to teach my kids(Not that I'm so great and wonderful of a teacher) it seems like they still bring home so much "junk" from other kids. Even though we're in Happy Valley, Utah... There is still something to be said about how we need to be a "peculiar people" and stand out...in a good way!
Says the lady with "sole". ;)
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