Rights and Responsibilities
Just for once I am going to start this with a disclaimer :- if you are under thirty you probably won't want to read anymore!
Right, now that that has been said, let me say in very clear words - I am over it! OVER IT - in big letters. Will someone please tell me how this generation seems to be so well versed in their rights they have forgotten, that the laws of the universe (I would say chemistry, seem to think it's physics - but since I only did Biology, I know it isn't that- so universe is going to have to do!) say that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Under thirty's who didn't heed the warning, what does that mean???? It means that you cannot have rights, without having responsibilities. And, trust me, I know all about responsibility. I am a responsibility queen.
But what I see, far too often to make me happy, content, pleased, relaxed or even slightly jovial about life - and what is being thrown at me is... "I want.. I need.. It is my..."
And why I puzzle because it is not what I have taught my children. Or what I say to others around me. So, what I want to know, who is teaching and over ruling what I teach my children? Actually, I know, and right about now - I am seriously considering become a hermit.
My only conciliation is, I am not alone:
"Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are
disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they
terrorize their teachers." Aristotle, circa 350 BC
And I think that perhaps this would be the best advice, I could offer a few people at the moment:
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." - Anon
Okay, am off my soap box.... until next time...
