Originally Posted by New Quilter
I am sad to say, it seems that many of us are shocked/surprised when someone does something totally nice like this without expecting to gain something, yet we are not really shocked/surprised when someone does something truely horrible...hmmm...must be a sign of the times...I grew up in the 50's/60's..small town, and it seems that the world was just a nicer place then...Naomi
I think that possibly it was easier to live peacably with your neighbors then but evil and grouchy people have always populated our society, we just didn't hear about all of it 24/7 like we do today. Indeed, if we hear more good will stories , we are more likely to believe more in man's decency and caring rather than man's inhumanity to man. It truly was in many respects a "nicer place" in that people had time to be themselves, not the harried, worried homemakers of today who have too little time and money and too many frazzled nerves and duties beyond their capabilities.