Recently it has occurred to me that people in our so called 'modern' and 'progressive' society are losing the basic etiquette of being human. No matter how 'progressive' we may think ourselves to be and no matter how much we discover, we will never be a progressive race until we learn how to empathize or be kind to another human, not because we have an incentive to do so, but on the basic terms of humanity. Once upon a time, we were quite refined creatures but it is a recurring theme that our more animalistic characteristics are on show, which does makes me ashamed but what disgusts me further is the level of indifference of the common person. The average individual concerns themselves more with the football score, Kim Kardashian's relationship status, frustrated at being single and lonely and Balenciaga's latest spring/summer line entitled 'unparalleled and sophisticated.' If only our minds reflected that, if only we were sophisticated and unparalleled in terms of our feelings and thoughts, however little substance is left in people. In Leeds, a student stabbed his teacher in the back in front of the whole class. His teacher was 61, near retirement and came in on her free day to help the children. What did they do? Stab her in the back. Literally. It seems youths are being given too much freedom, which i'm not saying is a bad thing but it results in tragic, to say the least, events such as these. Educators were once the most respected people and now they're being killed by the very people they are trying to help. What is this down to? "Changing social attitudes." Due to the animalistic nature of our society, our attitudes towards these kinds of situations have changed too- I see no protest, I see no uproar, just people talking about how a female recently photoshopped her backside on twitter and how Subway no longer sell pork. Death and tragic situations occur so much in everyday life that people have just become completely blase, which, in my view is absolutely vile and no one seems to talk about it. A life seems to mean nothing anymore. I'm not saying tweeting will solve famine, poverty, resurrect Ghandi or bring back the dinosaurs but it would help if people cared and spread awareness of these situations. Once we stop caring so much about all these shallow and superficial mundanities of every day life, only then will we appreciate what it is to be human. After all, when you die, what will you take to the grave?
Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion (Quran 57;20)
