patriotism, doing the right thing, helping your neighbor, living as one people...what ever word or term that you want to use.
In my adult life, I've always lived under the concept that you should stick to a job until it is done, no matter what. If a job ends up taking you 100 times longer than you thought it would, you don't give up. You keep chipping away at it until it is complete.
I believe that a little discomfort is a good thing because it hardens you a bit for the REAL problems that always come along in life. Enduring some discomfort makes you less of a whiner and a generally more likeable person.
I believe that things can, and usually will, get worse.
I believe that an individual should count his/her blessings everyday, because comparatively, even if you are poor in this country, you are still better off than billions of people in other parts of the world, in many ways.
But as it happens, it seems that a very large minority of people in this country do not have what it takes. They do not have the quiet respect that I believe they should have, for the things they are blessed with. Many people do not have the strength that I assumed they had. Nor the empathy. Many people have a perceived self-importance that is not based in reality.
And that is seriously messing up my head, because it has changed my entire concept of America and Americans. I have great respect for people who endured hardship during the Great Depression. Strong people. People with iron wills. Do we still have those types of people? Yes we do, but I would bet good money that if this were to be studied, we would find that the relative percentage of these type of people dwindles every year that passes.
I was going to post this as an OP, but I know I'll get lambasted if I do, so this seemed like a good place to post my opinion as a response.
Your comment "Nobody seems to give a shit" is spot on.
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