Office working is hard.

I have come across the realization today while taking one of 1000 pee breaks (I have issues of all shapes and sizes) that people are inhumane, indecent, and just plain.....rude. But that does not stop the rest of us- decent people from having to constantly pick up their slack.
Cleaning up a mess in the restroom after you make it is not hard- time consuming maybe but so will it be for the person that cleans it up when YOU fail to do so. Being on time is not hard- thousands of millions of people do it on the daily and yet we have to cover for you without a second though to your snooze #1, #2 and #3. Saying 'Hello' or 'Thank you' to someone who is checking out your items at a store or GOD FORBID when someone holds the door/ elevator for you is not hard- it should however be on the list of "Basic Manners' that your parents taught you when you were young.

Which brings me to my next point-

Is the current state of our society today having an effect on the way that the human population as it is today? I am guessing that is an asinine question and you (the decent ones) are yelling at your screen- "Of course it is you ninny!" Absent parents and broken homes leave children to be 'taught' by the TV and internet. With the TV shows on during primetime hours now and days and the unlimited about of filth on the internet readily available anytime day or night- how are these kids supposed to learn how to become decent respectable adults? But how do we stop it? Since clearly SHOWING others by executing our perfect manners and people pleasing ways (taught by the parents that were present in our homes, the religious leaders that we had to guide us through childhood, or the guardians we were blessed with by chance) is not enough to exemplify the ways of the decent human to others, what can be done to teach the unruly the fault of their ways? Is that 'not our place to do so'? Is it 'none of our business'? I have been told all of the above- that I have no control over anyone but myself which I agree with to an extent, however if one person does not show another who has no one else to show them then how will they ever learn it? If 100 people say (about one out of control "friend") that is it not their place to advise her of her rude and inappropriate behaviors- then who is going to? And if NO one does, than how will they correct said behaviors and if the indecent persons do not correct the behaviors that effect the decent people in the most direct ways daily- then the cycle will never end!
Mind blown.

I know what I plan hope to teach my children and that will be the same values and decency that was taught to me by my parents. Be courteous, be polite, be soft and kind, be humble, be compassionate, be organized and responsible, be loyal, be loving, be strong. Sure I hated them and rebelled against them and their damned 'ways'.... but I am sure as HELL grateful today that I treat other people with respect. That I am a decent person and that I can do for myself what I could easily ask others to do for me. I see it all around me every day and it makes me SICK then just makes me sad. Because those people didn't have someone to teach them, and they will undoubtedly pass their habits/ ways along to their children and it will continue to be a never ending cycle in the war of decency and humanity.