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Today's people are friendlier than the people in the past.
Over the past few decades, the need for friendliness
has changed among today’s people. So, it has
been argued whether today’s people are friendlier than the people in the past.
Some might argue that today’s people are much friendlier than those of the
past, while others might not think so. However, I am deeply convinced that
today’s people are definitely less friendly than those of the past. Actually, I
have a couple of reasons to support my idea and will explain and develop them in
the next following paragraphs below.
First
and foremost, people in the past were friendlier than people are today because
they were more dependent on each other. In the past, neighbors had to cooperate in order to accomplish
something or even give each other a helping hand to make their daily lives
easier. Therefore, having a good relationship with each other was
indispensible. So, in order to achieve this, they needed to know each other
more and treat one another with great friendliness. In contrast, today’s people
don’t feel the need to be friendly to one another because they are very
independent. Although some people might
say that today’s people are more open to diversity and foreign people than
those of the past, the personal relationships people share today are less
intimate and honest. A famous American drama called “Gilmore Girls” is a good example. In the movie, a woman lives with
her only daughter in a very small town that never changes in 1990s. She shares
a very intimate relationship with her neighbors and townspeople. This is
because everyone relies on one another. A neighbor who is a professional cook
always helps her out when she is trying to host a big party or event. A
townsperson who owns coffee-shop makes her coffee every night free of charge. Not only that, she could find someone
who would give her a ride to her workplace anytime. Since she is a supervisor
in an inn, she allows her neighbors to use a room for free whenever there’s an
emergency. Even when she had long been in a bad relationship with her own rich
parents, the relationship is easily recovered
because her parents and she need each other. Everyone in the town cannot live
without each other. In contrast, today’s people are living very independently
from one another because they think that they’re better
off on their own, in their privacy. They also have
too many possessions and are constantly fighting for more. Therefore, today’s
people are less friendly in comparison with those of the past.
Moreover,
people in the past were much friendlier because today’s people are too busy and
constantly stressed out. I this fast changing bustling
world, everyone has a tight schedule. The increasing
competition in society today is making everyone too busy to maintain politeness
or close relationships. Though people in
the past lived in a more inconvenient world with less wealth or development,
people today are very stressed out and constantly angered due to their tight
schedules regardless of today’s wealth or developments. The movie “Set It Up” is a good example
of this. The movie first shows a bustling atmosphere of New York. The main
character is a very diligent and professional secretary who works under a very
mean and unfriendly boss. Since the boss is a workaholic, she needs to stay
with her in the office over night. In a floor underneath the main character, there
is a male secretary that works under a very mean boss as well. Both the man and
the main character struggles with the same thing: isolation and unfriendliness.
Although both of them try to stay optimistic in hard times, they are often
depressed because they couldn’t share any intimate relationship with their
co-workers. However, they realize that they’re bosses
are actually decent people. The reason for their unfriendliness was because
they have miserable lives. They are both too stressed out to care about other people’s
feelings. They are also too busy to participate in family events or even
maintain a good relationship with their spouse. Therefore, it is obvious
and absolute that today’s people’s hardships and difficult circumstances are
preventing them from being friendly, compared to those of the past.