Respect.

Words are spoken between people everyday but yet we don't realise how much they offend, but then again a lot of the time silece is more offensive. Sometimes it upsets me, I will openly admit that the age of chivalry is over, dead infact, but how did it die? The culture we live in defines us. The ideal that with age comes wisdom has been blown out of the water, another thing we are bought up to believe is to respect our elders. I don't see how it relates, you hold open a door for someone, not because they are carrying something, just to be polite the least you can expect, nay SHOULD expect is a thankyou or a smile. Instead we get a snarl or just ignored as if we have to do it, we don't its a CHOICE! We choose to do it, because in general we are good people, not just because we don't follow convention just because everyone deserves to feel valued. Me, you and everyone else we all contribute to life in someway or another.
As for respecting elders how does that relate to modern day society? I agree wouldn't be around if it wasn't for them, but that is just evolution and genetics but when the respect that they demand is recipricated then they will start to get more in life, do they forget that with age comes wisdom but also senilaty you can have all the wisdom in the world but if you cannae remember it then what use is it?
Maybe I am just ranting yet I feel that more is expected from the younger generations but if people don't get what they want then maybe they should of passed their skills on for something worthwhile not money but just the fact that someone else is wanting to learn from them. It could be why people are stuggling to attract enough people to the teaching proffessions, maybe because they get no espect nowadays, but to let you in on a secret, respect is not something you can earn nor is it something you can demand, you have to feel it. If you cannae feel respect then you obviously do not warrant the respect that you deem yourself worthy of.

I apologise for anyone who reads this, but with reading this you earn my admiration and deserve a hug at the very least.