Have times changed so much where no one is being taught any manners? Or is memory loss happening with every age? There really isn’t a real answer. Manners become more significant and more important as you get older. Instead of your pleases and thank yous it turns into holding the door open for women and the elderly and helping people with small tedious work. Sometimes making this small polite gesture will earn you uplifting praise or win you a gift. It’s all about good karma. However, you would think people would know this about having good manners or being polite, but it looks like they decided to skip the 1st grade and not learn the art of manners.
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Let’s go back to 1st grade, shall we? The disgusting little buggers who picked their noses and ate it. The finger paintings that somehow ended up on the refrigerator. And we can’t forget the discovery that glue does taste good. All through the weird, disgusting occurrences in 1st grade, your oddly hot teacher managed to teach you the in’s and out’s of being the polite young child you are expected to be. Say please when you want something or need something. If someone does something for you or gives you something even if you don’t like it, say thank you. You’re welcome if someone is polite back to you. Three simple sayings that made your grandparents pinch your cheek like a good boy and girl. And somehow through the pain of a pinched cheek, you felt good for being polite and using the manners you were taught.
Has all that learning and good feeling gone down the drain? Did you all manage to shit out all of your good manners the day you entered high school? At least in middle school, you had little manners, but once you hit high school, you develop an attitude. Once in a blue moon, someone will say thank you, or you’re welcome, but every time you hear those words come out of a teenager you are automatically shocked. You feel like someone is swearing at you, but no they are actually polite.
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College hits you, and you realize that if you are helpful and polite to someone you will get rewarded in some way. You use manners and politeness as an in to get what you want. Especially, when it comes to older people. They have watched first hand the decrease in manners, so when they see someone younger than them being polite to them, they instantly reward with them with praise or something more significant. It’s a mischievous way to get something, but at least they are using their manners. Probably not the way manners should be looked at, but whatever works for someone to hold the door open for you.
Let’s hope to have good manners and to be polite will have a new wave of life. It needs to pick up fast because sooner or later everyone will be slamming doors in peoples faces and telling them to buzz off instead of having a beautiful day. This world is slowly coming to an end, and it’s all thanks to the lack of manners.
