Values is defined as the moral principles and beliefs or
accepted standards of a person or social group. Values is said to be the standards
of good and evil, which govern an individual’s behavior and choices. The values
of each individual may derive from society, government, religion, and family.
Looking back in the past, our values today are tremendously different from
yesterday. The values in the past have been degraded as we accept the modern
trend of the society. So the question is, how can we bring those values back in
our society today?
In the
modern era, everything changes even the moral values of each individual
changes. It is moved to low moral standards, which is meant not good to have
with. Computers, cellphones, televisions, internet and other media are
contributing factors in changing our kind of values. There are lots of people
nowadays who don’t show respect to their parents and their elders. There are
those who are insensitive to others. These are the examples of the influences
of the media. Some people thought that what’s on the T.V. is correct. Values is
a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards. It encompasses
chastity and moral purity. In the past generations, it was a race to see
couples who lived together without the benefit of a legal matrimonial ceremony.
In recent years, couples that set up household without marriage are nearly
plentiful as traditional married couples. But not only that, this new trend is
more accepted by other individuals in our society. In earlier society, the laws
and morals are simply come from the Roman System of Laws which was largely
based on the Ten Commandments. As society moved into the modern era, that
earlier system of laws has become more and more eroded. Great values of the
past have been change by today’s modern times. Like being conservative to being
speculative or revealing the some parts of the body in public, being honest to
dishonest, and being polite to being rude. I hope that those values will be
back again amidst the modern type of society we have today.
I truly
believe that bringing the values in the past begins individually in our hearts
and in our home. It is the accumulation of thousands of small decisions and
actions we make. Now is the time to prepare. We must engage in strict training
be exercising more self-discipline. As what an author writes in his novel, “You
be the one to make and stand for the right, even you stand alone. Have the
moral courage to be a light for others to follow.” Now is the time for each of
us to arise and unfurl the banner to the world calling for the return of the values
from the past.
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