I’ve been thinking lately as I scroll through my Facebook feed that we as a human race have lost the ability to be nice. Please tell me I’m wrong.

It seems like every day there are more and more people showing the utter lack of manners, compassion, respect, and dignity. I can’t help but wonder what has happened to us, (although I can hazard a few guesses)

While hate has always been an underlying current in life, it seems that it is now totally acceptable to show it, to blame others for our status, or lack thereof in life. It is now acceptable to physically assault others based on their skin color, religion, or sexual orientation. Heck, the simple act of posting a status on social media has the potential for attack. Not everyone has to agree, and not everything has be an argument.

Of course having said that I look at the world around me, and I see that we’ve forgotten the golden rule. You know, the whole, “Treat others as you’d have them treat you.” or “Love thy neighbor as you do yourself.” Seriously, what happened to us?

Oh, I remember, we stopped disciplining our children, failed to teach them the value of life, and pretty much raised a group of uncaring, self-centered, kids, (just my opinion people.) We’ve failed to be parents, we’ve failed to provide guidance, necessary life skills, the ability to have and show compassion, respect, empathy. And it all shows in our behavior out on the world stage.

Police killing blacks, white nationalist plowing into crowds of protesters, our leader mocking the disabled, calling women pigs and dogs. Ugh…

I can’t . . .  I honestly am so disappointed in our nation and how we are behaving.

We need to WAKE UP, in order to save ourselves and our world.