"Sometimes even, I feel very frustrated with the people around me, whose morals and values clash with mine, probably due to different types of upbringing. Not despising them nor what, 'cos I can't say I'm a very morally correct person. Just that the difference in morals will spark off very heated arguments, and it gets worse when they don't attempt to understand your point of view, and are adamant about convincing you that they are correct. Where's the respect?
I feel that people born from 1984 onwards (1985, 1986 blah..) are too full of themselves. They have been taught to think for themselves before considering everything else.This particular method of upbringing is what caused all of us to be so angst-filled, hate-the-world, selfish, proud, and have no one in our eyes except for what we strongly believe in. We hold no respect for anyone we don't like, and we lash out at them cruelly, usually because of a simple "I don't like you lah!"
I cannot help but feel that the Generation Y in Singapore is a big problem to the country. Just look at the young ones doing atrocious things. Committing suicide at a tender age just because. Whacking each other with fatal weapons just because. Glare at each other and fight just because. Have road rages resulting in deaths just because. Relentlessly criticising people we can't accept just because. We are our own nemesis. All because of our self-centredness.
Like all political and social issues are, there are no rights or wrongs. It all boils down to what an individual believes in. Though so, shouldn't there be a newly-defined 'guide' which gives an estimation of what are the dos and don'ts of being a morally upright person? If there is none, how are we going to let the growing children know the proper behaviour?"
-An excerpt from Wanyi's blog.
Potatomus Maximus.
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