This past Wednesday there was a school shooting one hour away from where I live. It’s scary to think about. I work full-time at a wonderful high school; these shootings can happen anywhere.
I was doing some research this morning on school shootings in the past and also read a few articles on the cause for these shootings.
We can go back and forth on why this happens. I’m not here to debate it. I am here to say in a short and sweet manner, if everyone was nice during their day, I firmly believe it would help.
There’s too much anger in this country.
One article I came across talked about a fast-food manager quitting their job after 20 years because customers have become awful. The employee cited it’s gotten out of hand the way customers treat him and his co-workers.
Bullying is an epidemic in our schools and in the workplace. Are we trying hard enough to fix this problem?
I understand there are a few reasons for people being angry, I get it. But what if we all started being nicer to the people we come in contact with each day. I think that would make a huge difference.
Hope all is well…
Steve
E-Mail: SteveFinamore@yahoo.com
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Charlie said:
Sorry to sound like an old man, but it is because the entire world is consumed by the “I” World! iPhones, Ipads, ITunes, I, I, I, me, me,me!
No one picks up there head anymore – and that applies to potentially friendly AND dangerous situations! That’s how humans have survived for hundreds of thousands of years! No more street smarts (and sadly you don’t learn that in an IPhone!)
People are RUDE because they don’t consider anyone or anything outside their sphere!
Here’s the saying hello to a stranger in a store line! A neighbor! Nodding to a person who is with you on an elevator! Thanking a store clerk! Tipping the person clearing your table in a restaurant and complimenting that person on a superb job!
Steve said:
Well said Charlie…Hope all is well.
KATHLEEN NUNZIATA said:
Greetings to all this holiday season. I had to answer in response to this email. First rudness has been around since the beginning of time. I can handle rudness, it doesn’t kill you. Like you said, people don’t talk to each other anymore, verbal communication is gone. If those parents from Michigan communicated with their son instead of buying him a gun, this could have been avoided. The only time there is verbal communication is when the police/FBI are about to arrest you or when you need to speak with an attorney. If people today took time out of their day to talk instead of texting or emailing, this world would be a better place. Yes, even with communication violence will still happen no matter what, but the platform of communication will always be key.
Happy Holidays from Kay Fanning, from good ole Brooklyn, when Brookly was Brooklyn.
Steve said:
Good stuff – I don’t like rude people. Also, Parenting 101 is a lost art. Buying a gun for your 15 year-old son? And the text message she sent him? SMH.
Happy Holidays.
KATHLEEN NUNZIATA said:
We all forget one thing we live in very bad times. A young man takes a stroll in NY attends NYU and is stabbed to death by a creep with a long rap sheet. The young man that died was white and the stabber is black. Now does it matter what the skin color is to some it does. If your white and you kill a black you have the right to LOOT. If your Black and kill a white no one loots. This is the crazy world we live in. A life is a life no matter your skin color, religion or where you come from. When I read or hear on the news another life has been taken because they can do it and get away with it and they do.
I say to myself I wonder what the young or older person may have been or given to society. Perhaps a doctor to cure the world of cancer, or the nurse who saves the life of your child, parents or you. Our parents took action when someone was in danger. I watched them run into the streets when someone yelled for help. The ran with baseball bats, brooms and cast iron frying pans.
I know one thing Charlie those iphones and cells can call 911 to get help BUT THEY RATHER RECORD A BEATING OR A MURDER or even a rape TO SHOW on THE INTERNET yep thats what they DO. The real men and women died a long time ago except for people like myself and others like me. I pray that we get back the days when I was a child over 60 years age. We did have them for four years now worse than ever.
Maybe just maybe we can get back the days of kindness, hope, charity and love for one another. I do have hope I must.
God bless all, Kay