I truly believe, however, that humankind can only continue to exist happily on our ever more crowded home planet if the majority of people treat each other with kindness, respect, and empathy.
You might put that down to my age and upbringing and you wouldn’t be wrong! Overall, I must confess to being from the ‘manners maketh man’ (and woman, naturally) school of thought. And then we’re back into that spiral of rudeness once more… Be HumanKIND This may sound like the responsibility to change lies with you and not the other person.Ĭonsider, though, what the alternative would be: respond rudely and give them an actual reason in the future to do the same to you. They are out there, for sure, but they aren’t the norm and even those people are very likely to have suffered or still be suffering some trauma or other.ĭealing with rude and mean people requires bucket loads of empathy and patience. It’s thankfully very rare to find a person who is rude just for the sake of it. The happy truth about human beings is that the majority are decent people who are occasionally so overwhelmed by circumstances that they lash out verbally and take out their frustration on innocent parties. Juggling mobile phones, the insistent and oh-so-hard-to-ignore demands of social media, and the online information explosion leaves people bombarded with constant demands on their attention that didn’t exist as little as 15 years ago. Undoubtedly, the rapid rise of digital data and technology has led to an exponential increase in the pace of life. ‘Brain Strain’ Caused By Technology Overload
#Stand to reason how to#
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