Changing Times

It is very interesting to see how society changes over time. You would believe that humanity would try to find a balance and maintain that balance but it is exactly the opposite. Hundreds of years ago shame was the worst thing that could happen to a man. As the Bhagavad Gita mentions “People will tell of your undying shame, and for a man of honor, shame is worse than death.” (Pg. 36). In those days shame meant that you could not fit in and you would not fit in with the society. That is why people preferred to die that to feel shame.

Today for a person to think of dying because of shame would be unthinkable. Our society has had a major change and shame is no longer important. There are other things which have replaced it like fitting in a group but almost none of these alternatives leads to death. You might believe that this is a good thing but it really is not. I believe that the society now ignores shame because a lot of people started feeling it and none of them killed themselves. This started filling up the world with people who have felt shame and if everybody feels it then the easiest thing to do is to forget it. Slowly the people who took it seriously died and it was no longer a big deal.

This is why it is very dangerous for the world to continue on this vicious circle that will eventually lead us to destruction. If the things that are taken seriously continues changing every time a mass amount of people get together against it then the world will lose its morals. For example if everybody started killing then people would view it as a normal thing. Since everybody would be punished our society decides that nobody should be punished. At a slow pace the things that were important to us will slowly start disappearing and we will live in a world that cannot control its morals and rejects the individuals that are not part of the group. This will lead to another problem which is fitting in. Since nobody wants to be left out, people will start changing to fit in. This will destroy personalities and create one false personality for every person which they have to follow.