Polite behaviour with the elderly
Thursday, 25 December 2008
THERE was a time when respecting one's elder was a thing taken for granted. Under no circumstances would you misbehave someone who was you father's age. These days, and sadly, it is not so. I witness these phenomena today as something not so abnormal and am thoroughly disheartened.
What is astonishing is that the not so well-off or the uneducated seem to have more sympathy towards older people than the so-called educated youngsters. These youngsters seem to have an agenda all their own and it is a hedonistic agenda. Nothing wrong with that but surely boorish behaviour with the elderly can be understood as extremely insensitive.
What those younger people forget is that someday (if they are lucky, actually) they too would be old and feeble and would only be able to retort verbally against any disrespectful act towards them and which may not deter the other person nor make him sensitive to his feelings.
Sonia
Babar Road
Mohammadpur, Dhaka
What is astonishing is that the not so well-off or the uneducated seem to have more sympathy towards older people than the so-called educated youngsters. These youngsters seem to have an agenda all their own and it is a hedonistic agenda. Nothing wrong with that but surely boorish behaviour with the elderly can be understood as extremely insensitive.
What those younger people forget is that someday (if they are lucky, actually) they too would be old and feeble and would only be able to retort verbally against any disrespectful act towards them and which may not deter the other person nor make him sensitive to his feelings.
Sonia
Babar Road
Mohammadpur, Dhaka