The way things were.....

Is it just me or does it seem like the world is angrier these days? I asked my Mom about how things were when she grew up and she said, "Yes, the world was a much different place when I was growing up." When she was in High School in the 1940's they would all go miles away in carloads or by bus to the beach. Big groups of kids, boys and girls, and nobody ever had to be afraid of anything. None of the parents worried because there was no need. The girls were treated like ladies, and everybody danced with everybody, and not the way the kids dance now, real dancing.

None of the kids got drunk, nobody dreamed of committing a violent act against anyone else, and if one guy ever mistreated a girl, there were 10 other guys waiting to put him back in line.

Please and thank you were still said....doors were opened for the women, and men got up when a woman came to the table. Drugs were unheard of.

A group of young people walking on the sidewalk would never have dreamed of not yielding to an older person walking by, and high school students in my Mom's class, in the 1940's, would never have talked back to a teacher, let alone threatened or assaulted one.

Personally, I really miss decorum, and manners, and class. I wish children could be safe wherever they went, and if they were left out after dark, I wish we lived in a world where they could go up to any door and find someone to take them back home. It used to be that way in my parents world.

I would like to live in that kind of world. Although I would miss my IPHONE and my computer....

Things have even changed a lot since I went to school....I can almost imagine how it might have been back in those times. Growing up in small town 60's and 70's I got the tail end of it. A girl I knew in High School actually sang "Beautiful Savior" at an assembly and the students were respectfully attentive. Do they even have assemblies anymore? They certainly wouldn't allow that song to be sung now!
What do you think? Do you feel like things have changed since you were a kid? For the better?