A lot of wrongdoing continues to plague our society because we refuse to accept that wrong has its negative effects.
In all walks of life these days you can see the positive from the negative: it is like all morals have been taken out of the equation.
Starting with driving on our roads, no one cares about speed limits, the bright glaring lights, the overtaking in unusual places. Despite the carnage and frequent deaths, it seems to bother no one.
In the workplace, everyone employed wants better pay, but nobody is ready to go the extra mile, as it is about gaining the maximum and giving the minimum. Everybody wants money, but nobody wants to work for it. Everybody wants to eat, but will not plant or do home cooking. Instead, they’ll complain about the cost of eating out. We want the best of everything, but will not sacrifice to obtain anything.
The media has few objective discussions and we take everything for granted.
The killings continue, but we blame the state and not our children’s upbringing; we want the government to give and do everything for us, but are not prepared to do anything for ourselves. Laws of all kinds are broken daily especially, parking in unusual places.
We hire law enforcement personnel but they too are not proactive.
Many directors of various establishments have no out-of-the-box ideas. It is like the more things change, the more they remain the same.
So then, how are we to progress if we don’t follow laws or have standards or values? What example do the elderly leave for the young to copy?
If we talk about change, it must be seen to be in effect. Everybody with a business is price-gouging, substandard and shabby work you get from most people and those who promise to pay always have an excuse why they ought not to.
In my mind, the future looks bright, but it’s also grim because we have become our worst enemy.
Disrespectful behaviour is everywhere and nobody accepts wrongs like it is the new norm. So the new code of life is ‘anything goes’. With a society like what we have created, I find it hard to assume that better will come.
We welcome visitors and talk daily about tourism being the backbone of our country’s economy, but we offer shabby service, keep our investment dirty and buy and sell at exorbitant prices and all vendors are selling the same things.
We choose not to be creative apart from deciding the cost of this and that item for maximum profits. One of these days we will see that we are the cause of everything that affects us and the help we consistently need will be no more.
We expect that the state should borrow for all kinds of development, but want to pay lower taxes. We all like to take, but nobody wants to give back, nobody wants to volunteer and family support is the worst that you can desire.
We love the superficial but not for real — and our best hobby is to criticize others.
Wow! What a time we live in.
So sad to see who we have become as a people.