What Would You Change About Modern Society?

A lot of things.

Mainly, how we view and deal with each other.

There’s a lot of snap judgements being made based on perception and images. Sit down and talk with people. Don’t just sit on the sidelines and base your view of the situation on second hand information.

If there’s a situation involving an individual that seems sketchy to you, what are you doing to get information about that particular situation (and the individual involved)? How are you coming to the conclusion you have? Are there details about the situation that you don’t know about? Have you gone to the individual in question and inquired if anything may be ‘off’? Are assumptions being made based on who they’ve been associated with (either in the past or in the present)? Is there something that the individual in question can bring forward to change your view? What would it take to get you to walk into the situation with an open mind?

For the past 3 years, I’ve been stuck in a situation that isn’t black and white. Assumptions are being made based on a slew of things, from inaccurate perceptions to false presumptions, compounded with ‘that’s not my experience’ scenarios. I can tell you until I’m blue in the face the type of help I need, but since it doesn’t fit in a cold, I’m getting lost in the shuffle.

So, if I coud change anything about modern society, it would be how they view and deal with anything that isn’t straightforward. Not every problem fits in a mold and can be easily solved with a ‘one size fits all’ solution. Before you go jumping to conclusions, pause. What would you do if you were stuck in a situation that wasn’t straightforward and everyone was giving you the exact same ‘solution’ that you’ve already tried (multiple times)?