Why are the old people getting less and less respected now?
Today, the objective environment and humanistic care of the elderly in China are still beyond the reach of the elderly in the West. Thousands of years of Confucian ethics have penetrated into the genes of everyone in China, and the attachment and cohesion between family members centered on the elderly are closer than any other country in the world.
Take me for example. I really can't imagine that once the old man leaves us, the family will never have such frequent and close contacts, especially the only child of our next generation. Therefore, we should cherish every precious hour we spend with the elderly.
The situation that the elderly are not respected still exists, but it will never become the mainstream of society. Of course, our old people are not as good as the younger generation in terms of economic income and consumption, but most of them live a simple old age that has become a habit.
Old people don't want to trouble their children unless they have to, so how can they not get the respect of their sons and nephews? The answer may be the emotional contradiction between children and the elderly. The emotional contradiction mentioned here does not mean that the younger generation does not love the elderly, nor does it mean that the elderly lack morality and misbehave, but refers to the dislocation and conflict of emotional needs between the two generations.
Children's descendants and the elderly look at each other at two age steps, and they have great cognitive differences on how to spend their old age.
Young people feel that they have done their best in big aspects, such as social treatment and policy care, or in small aspects, such as diet care, medical consultation and nursing companionship. However, the old people are always nagging and complaining. They don't take into account the unprecedented life pressure and economic burden faced by young people.
Old people think that children become heartless after marriage, and everything is just for their families, and they no longer care too much about themselves. This contradiction caused by the cognitive difference between the two generations is the main factor that constitutes the disharmony between many old people and young people.
Respect the old and the young.
Respecting the old and loving the young is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. Three-character classics are learned by children from kindergarten. It is intended to educate children to root their thoughts in their minds from an early age as the standard of humanitarian behavior in your life. Love youth, no problem, and the happiness of children.
Respect for the elderly, filial piety to parents, respect for the elderly and love for the young, social progress can not be separated from the hard work of our ancestors, our generation is not creating better living conditions for the next generation? With the rapid development of the times, even if the elderly can't keep up with the pace of that generation, there are behaviors that are uncoordinated with the current behavior. We should be open-minded, maintain our self-cultivation and set an example for future generations.
It's not that the old man has become bad, but that the bad man has become old.
I don't know that the scholar marked this famous saying and accurately sent a banner to the "bad" old man from the times and environment. Moral model.
If we regard a 60-year-old man as an old man, then we were born five or eight years ago, came of age seven or eight years ago, and are old people and our parents two thousand and eighteen years later. We were born in that generation, and they went through the war years of chaos, banditry, being naked, hungry and demanding peace.
After experiencing the period of socialist construction in new China, self-reliance, hard struggle and lack of material resources, it is an expectation to tighten one's belt and go to work and live a better life.
After the reform and opening up, I became rich through hard work. The economy has been enlivened, the life has become rich, and we have lived a good life. This generation has made great contributions to national construction. Being recognized by society is the greatest comfort to them.
Amir khan, an Indian national treasure film actor, once said: To respect the elderly is not to respect his age, but to respect his behavior.
At present, many elderly people try to put their behavior above social morality and law through their age. When they are rejected by others, they rely on the old to sell the old and make others hate them, so that now, when it comes to the elderly, everyone stays away from them.
Of course, this is only a small part of the elderly. Most of them deserve our respect. They have made great contributions to the country. It can be said that without them, there would be no life for us now.
I also hope that the current media can report more positive behaviors of the elderly, so that respectable elderly people can be respected, instead of being disgusted by society because of individual elderly people.