this may be one of my first writings for sm lol

Society gone down hill



We've all been there…sitting with an older relative listening to them talk about "the old days". But have we really thought about the change in the world and society to allow these people to talk about the old days?

When my grandmother and others in her era were young, many things were different than they are now. Supervised dates, purity, in bed by dark, and the strict dress code; no one would have ever thought of wearing something like they do now. Locking the doors was a preference not a necessity. The language was clean and there was only a rare murder or freak death. And a night on the town consisted of going down to Neely's Drug Store and grabbing a malt or ice cream.

Growing up in my parent's decade, society grew a little more lenient. Dates weren't chaperoned and a strict curfew was obeyed. Parents always knew where their children were and who they were with. You could find kids hanging out at the Leaning Tower of Pizza or at the show. The youth had only a drinking age of 18 and a wild party consisted of alcohol. Very rare cases of teen pregnancies were heard of misewell the spread of STD's.

As the morals and the loss of respect for themselves has gone done hill the world and society keeps changing. Walking down the street a person can easily come across a woman with little to no clothing covering her body. Prostitutes and drive bys happen more commonly than rarely. The everyday use of language is mostly inappropriate and would be better unsaid. Teens are no longer to hang out at a local restaurant or parking lot, forcing them to hide in their homes. The era is no longer filled with crazed alcohol parties but consist of premarital sex and drugs. Kids go on dates with people they meet on the internet and many parents have no clue where they are. Now a pregnant teen is not a big deal and 1 out of 2 people have an STD. A proper burial is a joke or a headline in this week's gossip column instead of a respectful ceremony where they obey the dead's wishes. The society's standards have dropped from high to minimal in only a few decades.



Pondering over the mass amount of change that our world has seen, have we ever stopped and asked ourselves why? The mass amount of programs for the youth to do well is growing each day. Schools support repetition of character improvement traits and drug awareness. So why is it that we lock our doors for safety and a loud shot makes people drop to the ground in fear of a drive by? It saddens me to step out and take a look at the big picture of our society and see how it has changed.

We've gone from being a mere dust in the wind to rocks being thrown at one another. And why? Personally, I think that people no longer have real problems and no longer suffer like passed decades have experienced. Without some type of drama or hectic issue controlling their lives people get bored. As the population grows more self-centered, the more people need to feed their egos. The dull lives that people are not content with each day continues, what are we going to feed boredom with in the future?