Sunday Thoughts About Common Sense
For the last year or two my husband and I find ourselves saying, ”What’s wrong with people? Don’t they have any common sense?”
Frankly, it does seem that too many people have no common sense, that basic unspoken, unwritten treasury of knowledge learned as one grows from babyhood to early teens.
(1) By the time we reach the age of twelve or thirteen, we have a bank of knowledge—things like don’t touch a hot stove or you get burned, don’t put your hands under scalding hot wataer, don’t antagonize a stray dog, don’t be cruel to others, help those you meet, never think a gun is a toy, don’t jump off buildings, don’t disrespect your elders, etc.
(2) Yes, common sense does coincide with common decency.
(3) In the past, children grew up learning thousands of bits of information from their parents and their environment. Some of it was told to us, but a lot of it was observational. We absorbed lessons from watching the adults in our lives. We saw how they acted, what they said, how they treated others, what they did as a normal course of action.
(4) We absorbed it and took it all for granted. If we became parents and parented much like our parents did, we passed on those common sense lessons whether we realized it or not.
(5) Here comes the problem. Many more people in today’s world grew up in single family homes where over-burdened single parents often didn’t have the luxury to interact with their children.
(6) I will never believe the lessons from that media gave them a good foundation for common sense and common decency.
Too much of pop culture teaches young people that if you feel wronged, get revenge. If you don’t like what someone says, lash out. If you did something wrong, cover it up and get your parents and friends to cover it up too.
(7) We have the right of free speech in the U.S., but the internet has abused that as well as made free speech, thought, and opinion something one doesn’t exercise unless one wishes hordes of trolls making life miserable for them. We were taught to know that not everyone would share our religion, politics, etc. but that they had that right because they were Americans.
(8) I still shake my head when I think about the woman who told me her sixteen-year-old son was hired by a neighbor to remove the fallen leaves from his yard. He gave the kid a trash bag and a rake.
Hours later, he returned to find the bag not even full, the yard still covered with leaves, and the kid laboriously picking up the leaves one by one and placing them in the bag—because he didn’t know what a rake was! The mother thought it was funny.
(9) I thought it was sad. Loss of common sense and/or common knowledge. The kid didn’t know what a rake was and/or had never seen this common implement used. A rake or other gardening tools is no longer common sense.
Driving faster than the flow of traffic and weaving in and out of bumper to bumper traffic? Lack of common sense. Dropping F-bombs in public where there are dozens of kids? Lack of common sense. Also common decendy.
(10) The lack of common sense explains warning labels on everything from shampoo—for external use only—to poisons—do not eat.
(11) Your lack of common decency is why some women and men won’t date you or respect you.
If you’re a parent, is your child developing common sense from you or from some other source?
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Takeaway Truth
Okay, I’ll climb off my soapbox. Some of you may agree with me, and some will disagree.
Fortunately, I have the right to my opinion and to speak it if I choose in my own country because I am an American.
Joan Reeves aka SlingWords: The Word Slinging Adventures of Joan Reeves
Source: https://slingwords.blogspot.com/2022/10/sunday-thoughts-about-common-sense.html
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For the “Sunday Thoughts About Common Sense”, I admit, since it is Sunday, and for the day of the Lord having not have the moment to read the article. Perhaps later in the coming week…
I nevertheless take a sec. to type a compliment upon the delicious looking photography. This photography represents all the feminine beauty a woman may carry. She is modest with her bare feet, and yet not neglected as one may see her painted toe nails. The below the knees clean white dress shows her to be prudent as well as willing to please her husband to the most honest loving cares.
She carries an unpretentious and yet practical basket full of yellow & white fresh flowers which she must have cut elsewhere from the pink flowers of garden where she stands.
Since her legs show her standing and immobile, this imagination leads that she is meeting her husband from after a short walk.
I believe that God the Father, from heaven must like this inspiring picture. That is ‘common sense’.