High Expectations

I think I have finally crossed the line between having high expectations of life and not being at all surprised at what it is capable of delivering. The more I delve into life, the more I discover how crazy it is, but the more crazy things I see, the less shocked I am.

Ok, so I still ask myself that question when I read the news or talk to people about their experiences, " Has the world gone mad?" and my reply is always "Yes, I think it has", but ever since my personal experiences started to take a strange turn, I came to the conclusion that anything is possible.

I feel almost as though I was living in the past and when I was thrown into the present I saw an abundannce of new things in and around my life.

I fear that the explanation for these changes in society's behaviour may lie in the lack of values and disregard for each other that its members increasingly display. Fear? Yes, I do fear it, because while it becomes a natural part of our lives we are not doing anything to change or counteract it. We are 'living' with it. Admittedly, getting used to something makes it easier to handle on a daily basis, but when binge drinkers get used to beating people to death or parents get used to breaking up families and consequently their children's lives, things can only get worse.

Or can they?

 
Written by Elva Parinaud
27/03/2008