Equality In Society

The people of today differ from the people of the past and will probably differ from the future. Since people evolve we tend to change or even adopt certain values from others. It maybe a positive trait or a negative one.

The story entitled, No one stops to say “Thank You” anymore by L.A Wilson, showed that people of today seldom show appreciation of the simple things and the good deeds others are doing for them. It maybe a guard in a restaurant or in a hotel opening the door for you, a baggage carrier (kargador) in the port or even the dicer in a grocery store who packs your goods. Even if they are paid to do it, as their job, still we, costumers are obliged to say “Thank You” as a sign of appreciation and respect.

I observed that the people today tend to show respect only to those who are well-dressed and people who belong to the elites or the high ranked people of the society. This shows that discrimination exists even in showing respect and appreciation. The way people treat others differ from person to person, since it’s in their mentality that how they show appreciation and respect is based by their looks. But is it fair for people to treat others differently by his/her looks alone? Others would say that the way people dress is also a factor or one of the basis of giving respect and appreciation, because once you are well-dressed it indicates that you are educated. So this means that the less fortunate are more likely to be given less importance and respect because they’re uneducated, which is wrong. Just like in the story, even the beggar knows how to say “Thank You” to a man who opened the door for him despite being desperate to escape a room full of disapproving people. This alone proves that appearance are not the basis for giving respect and appreciation, because even rich people does not know how appreciate little things or even say “Thank You” to his helpers, his driver, even to his cook and yet beggars whom we treat as the uneducated people knows how to say “Thank You” and appreciate the good deeds of others whatever situation he is in. There should be equality in the society.

Even in the youth today, we are less appreciative of the things around us. We only appreciate things once we can benefit from it. We tend to take and not give what is supposed to be given. Example of it is when a classmate of yours dropped his pen and you pick it up, but he didn’t say “Thank You”, you tend to feel insulted but you can’t blame him, because he adopts that kind of attitude from others or maybe he experienced the same experience once, got offended so in return, he will do the same thing to others. If you will do the same, the cycle will continue for the generations to come. We as youth should start to make a change and stop the cycle. We should be a good role model so that the lost values would be restored and also for the next generation to adopt it.