Helping strangers

When is the last time you did something kind for a stranger? Doing nice things for strangers isn’t something that just came about, but in recent years, “paying it forward” has become a trend. What do you think compels people to, say, pay for a coffee ordered by a person who will never see them and thus be unable to thank them?

 The last time that I last helped a stranger was by holding the door for them. That may not be a big leap to helping, but it is a polite and nice thing to do. People who help out others are compelled to do that probably to do it out of the kindness of their heart. Another could be that they just want to help.

With our generation slowly losing that way of kindness and helping strangers, people will do anything and not care. One example was that a fight broke out in a McDonald's where there was a group of teens beating up another teenager. All people did was just stand around watching, taking pictures and taking video. The only people who helped was that some of the employes call the cops. I feel like our society is slowly loosing this touch of helping others, when people should be helping others. People should be standing up for a person they don't know. Our society need to go back to where people would help each other and not just stand around.

Older people learning from this generation

What can older people learn from your generation? What lessons do you think your parents could learn from you? In general, what skills, attitudes and habits do you think people in your generation have that older people might benefit from? Why?

One thing that older people could learn from our generation is how to use the internet. If an older person needs to find something out or look something up they could just go to the internet and search for it. With the way the internet is, it is simple to keep up with current events. An older person who like to keep up with current events could search for a news website and read what they want to know about.

Our generation could teach how to use technology to the older generation, but our generation could use some teaching as well. We could learn not to be so down in technology so much and talk to people face to face. Also how the way society has grown over the years. Back then people cared about other people and look out for each other. Now if something happens all our generation does is just stand around and take video or pictures. The older generation might be able to learn from us, but we also need to learn from them.

Fairness

1. Think of a time when you've taken unfair advantage of a person or a situation, or when someone has taken unfair advantage of you. Describe it. What was unfair about it? How did it make you feel? What did you learn from the experience?

2. How is fairness related to having respect for others? How is it related to honesty? To being reliable? To being a good citizen?

When I was little and still went to a sitter, I was used as a footstool. Two older girls, in their teens or young adults, came to the sitter's house. They came to visit, and then they went to the living room to watch TV with me and the other kids. I sat in front of the couch on the floor. Then the two girls put their feet on my shoulder. I tried to move away but they pushed their legs down. I asked them to stop but they wouldn't. When my parent go to the sitter's house I was free from being a foot stool. I learned that people in this world could use people like they are superior.

Fairness is good to have. Fairness shows that you are on the same level of the other person and that you do not act like someone higher up. Honesty allows people to trust you and not have second guesses about what you say. Showing fairness to everyone is a good thing to do. In showing fairness to others in society, you are kind and help others. You treat everyone equally and help others. When people treat people fair and equal in life, there might be less violence and the world might be a better place.