Kindness and morals today.

It shocks me how inconsiderate people are in today's society. I hate going to the mall because of all the loud teenagers who swear and talk about vulgar things, walk into my baby stroller, and are just generally rude. I was taught to always say please and thank you, give up my seat to an elderly person or pregnant woman. If I was running around a store being loud and disruptive or swearing and bothering people at a restaurant my parents would have kicked my butt(figuratively). I never would have acted like that to begin with since I KNEW it was wrong. I hope that Michael grows up to be polite and helpful, luckily he has me for a mom ;). John and I are only in our 20s but we are always saying "I hate teenagers."

I was thinking about this because a few weeks ago we helped our elderly neighbor and everyone was so impressed by our kindness. His wife stopped by our house a couple days ago to bring us a box of chocolate and a thank you card. Her husband has dementia and one day while she was out he decided to take a walk in his pajamas and fell right in front of our house. It was January in PA, he didn't have on any shoes, or a jacket. He fell and hit his forehead but wasn't seriously injured. We brought him inside, called 911, cleaned him up, got him some water and tried to find his wife. The paramedics and police were with him in our house for at least and hour and they all said thank you to us about 10 times. What were we supposed to do?

It is sad to think that people wouldn't help their neighbor, or even a stranger for that matter. John says I am a sucker for charity. I will probably end up being one of those people who get robbed in one of those scams where a woman rings your doorbell covered in blood and a man jumps out of the bushes with a gun(not that I'm actually afraid of this but it does happen.) I would rather trust people and be able to feel good about my choices than hide from the "what-ifs." There are far too many stories about people being hurt because no one wanted to get involved.