SOCIESTIES DECAY

For some reason, it has come to my attention that people are sometimes inherently rude, not necessarily evil or bad, but impolite. I started wondering why that is, is it because we don't like each other? But then I thought, we can't hate someone we have never met. Is it because humans like to be alone? Then again, I found myself contradicting my experience, most people can't go a single day without some kind of human interaction; whether this is texting, blogging or talking to someone. Is it because most of the time interacting with others means sometimes going out of our way to accommodate them? On the other hand, we find ourselves depressed every time we think nobody needs us or wants us. To my knowledge, we need human interactions but most people blow off the chances thy get to make friends or help people for what sometimes seems to be no reason at all.

In the end, being rude or treating people with a bad attitude has a negative effect on who we are or what we do. What are we but the result of every interaction we have with the people we encounter in our path through life. To understand how I reached said conclusion we must take into account the human decision making process. When we make decisions big and small, we consider all those past experiences and events that both predate and overlap in some way the ones that we are currently making. So, every time we decide something, we are affected by our surroundings. Yes, we have the freedom to decide what to do, but we make that decision based on what has happened around us before; Creating the illusion of free will, an illusion so rooted in the day to day on goings of our lives that we don't notice that most of the time our decisions are not completely our own.

It is my belief that societies decay happened in some sort of chain reaction or vicious circle. It's easy to notice that negative things are harder to overcome or forget than positive things, therefore it's not hard to ruin someone's day or make a person's attitude inheritably negative for a short period of time. Because everything we do depends on what happens around us, the negative attitude of those who surround can unconsciously affect us in ways we haven't even considered. Then our negative attitude can be transferred into the people that we then interact with. This chain reaction is extremely hard to stop since the few people who belief in helping others and keeping a positive attitude are constantly bombarded by the negative interactions that other people create.

So, are people inherently evil? The answer to that question is no, but the tendency to succumb to the effects of the bad things that happen in our surroundings is both very real and constant. Life will never be easy but letting those things affect you can become a spreading cancer, and to change the world we must start one person at a time and that change starts with each and every one of us.