LOVE, Kloudiia

As mentioned in this post, I would like to talk abit about social consideration. As much as it is lacking more and more now, I’d like to look at it from another perspective.

One of the underlying reasons why there are so many noise created by inconsiderate people in public is because they lack social consideration.

They don’t care much for others, and they are very me centred. I know I won’t be able to do much to change their values and show more consideration for others by blogging about it, and I’m not going to do this either.

What I’d like to say here is rather to highlight the stark difference I see in showing consideration.

Have you seen or do you know of some people who show a lot of consideration to others, but when it comes to their closest ones like family members or even their romantic partners, their social quotient would take a sudden dip?

How about those who are the exact opposite? While they holler at a stranger who accidentally bumped into them, they treat their partners exceptionally nice with only whispers in between and nary a deciibel too high.

So, who should we fault? That you are such a pretender when you are outside, or you are a selfish brat who only think of your own family?

Is it possible to be kind to others and even kinder to our families? 

I remember my dad used to rush to the living room and tell us to lower the TV volume so that we won’t disturb our neighbours. Good social consideration. Then he will return to his room and blast his TV. Rasisng my eyebrow, I will then go in and ask him to also lower his volume so that he won’t disturb us. He didn’t do it intentionally of course, he was just oblivious to the noise and unaware that it would travel through his door and reach our ears.

I guess consideration is a value that needs to be taught to us when young, and to let us know it’s importance. So while we worry about the current generation and their manners, maybe we should first look at ourselves and see where we can improve.

[tags]courtesy, social consideration, family[/tags]