Educate, Wants vs Needs

All kids around my age away back when, we called each other by name. People older were always spoken to as Mr. or Mrs.. Of course there was that line of a persons age, where you didn’t know if a person should use their name or call them Mr., Mrs. or Miss., it was always better to use the formal. Then there was Mrs. and Miss., which are they, are they married or not. I always found that Mrs. was safer. How did you know when to stop using the formal? Generally the older person told you! If you were walking down the sidewalk we stepped out of the way for the older person. We were taught as kids to say hello to the older person first. Seems it don’t happen as much any more. But then again I grew up on a farm ten miles from a small town. Probably had more time to learn the rules of educate.
People are generally good inside, the parents of our fast pace society are living at mock speed trying to get everything and as much as possible in the shortest amount of time and the kids of today are learning that, this is the only way to live. Just think what pressure is going to be on the next generation. Funny thing is, the faster the pace we live in society the more stress we put on ourselves, and stress causes more diseases and will probably shorten your life. That old saying comes to mind (the hurrier I go the behinder I get). Wants vs Needs.
Sifu Hayes
Silent River Kung Fu - Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada