Your Worth: A look at reality

Our society has largely lost touch with class, manners, and empathy. I am not implying that I am not guilty of some or all of these as well. I am saying that I think we, as a people, need to be exposed to more real world experiences and less virtual, created, or contrived “realities.”

It is very easy to look at a society, people or person that is different than ourselves and judge their way, place or position in life. Unless we start to remove ourselves from this completely fabricated pedestal we are going to end up a very lonely society.

How can one look at a single mother and judge her as below you and less intelligent than you? Did she give up her chance at education to raise a family or to bear a child. Was she raped? What are her circumstances?

What about educational background? Can you sit and judge a person’s intelligence, worth, abilities based on their degree? Their school? Not at all. Some of the most intelligent people I know don’t carry degrees.  You can but are very often going to be mistaken. Bush did graduate from Harvard Business School and was our first President with a MBA. (This MBA seemed to help him run his companies and the country, right?) And Bill Gates was a college drop-out, although has since been given a honorary degree from Harvard. His lack of degree obviously implies he has a lack of intelligence, right?!

How about the child that never went to college and grew up in the slums of a third world country? Are we automatically superior because we were lucky enough to be born in the United States? Or because you were born white? Or as a male?

Society has largely become preoccupied, distracted and disconnected from reality. I hope that our society can once again find value in people, manners and niceties.

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