Community,'spirit' where has it gone?

Question

looking out for your neighbours, helping the elderly, Helping out at our childrens schools. We are all so busy chasing our tails that we don't seem to have time for each other. It's all 'me me me' and 'mine'. How sad.

Answer 1

Spirit is split away.. What remains is a broken community..

Answer 2

to much time spent in the rat race,trying to earn a crust then in our spare time we are to isolated following solitary pursuits like internet etc. life at 90 mph,no time for others.sad times!

Answer 3

Its gone down the toilet...

With all the anti-social behaviour and everything... its so sad.

If it makes you feel any better i help out at schools and help my neighbours and stuff :). I also move on buses and give up my seats for old people.

There is still some of us out there if you look hard enough.

Answer 4

It went the same way as respect for elders

Answer 5

Too many people and too many built up towns will end in this, I couldnt care less if my neighbour dropped dead, I hate kids and couldnt give a d**n about the elderly.

Answer 6

I know.

We've become too selifish, cos it's a dog eat dog world.

We all want what everyone else has, and nowadays we are more preoccupied with making ourselves happy than others. Although many parents would put their children first.

Answer 7

Lucy, good point. But there are a few good people left.I still help people as best I can.I see the same thing you do everyday. It is a shame. Dog eat Dog!!!

Answer 8

community spirit is still alive and well. You just have to get out there and look for it. I have spent the greater part of the past three years around the country doing community service with Americorps and Habitat for Humanity. In these past years my faith in mankind has been saved. I have met some of the best and brightest of our generation who are willing to give up their time and put off making money just to help these people out. So if you really want to see community spirit get out there and volunteer, trust me you will not be alone.

Answer 9

Well you are absolutely right about the community spirit being almost non existent. This world is changing as we usher in an era of technology, war, political activism etc. Everyone has no time for each other it is all about what i can get for me or who can i use to acheive this or that. But i think you are on the right path in terms of realising it is a growing trend, but the issue here is if it can be rectified. Some of us want to help we sit and bellyache about how people do not do this or that but what are we doing to get over that problem. I consider people like that inactive helpers, people who generally have the idea of helping but not the action for helping. If you really want yourself to be heard why not rebuild the community spirt in your community first and then extend to others. Change only occurs when we realise the need for change, understand why there must be a change and putting mechanisms in place to facilitate the change.It starts with You. Good luck and God bless.

Answer 10

It all went downhill when prayer was taken out of the schools...  This country was built on freedom of religion... not extinction or exclusion of religion......

     Since when should the minority rule the majority... we live in a country where majority rules..... remember that when elections roll around your area.....

     God Bless America !!!!!!!!!!

Answer 11

A lot of it is to do with the modern pressures on people to have everything at any cost. Some of it is also geographical too. I live in a village with its own school, selection of shops, community centre and pubs. A lot for a place with a population of less than 3000 but what keeps it going is the community spirit. A lot goes on for all ages in and around the school and community centre.

We still have antisocial behaviour issues but most of us know a lot of the teenagers and have done since they were small and just tell them to quit it or their parents will get a call. We also have a community bobby and that makes a huge difference to us.

Community spirit is very hard to pin down but there's a lot to it and people are drawn here for that reason. I know many people, including ourselves, who moved out and regretted it and moved back as soon as possible and can't fully explain why.

Answer 12

you are right.  we have become selfish as a society.  service is so important for society to flourish.  i think we are afraid something won't be reciprocated or we have the attitude, what's in it for me?  we live in a small neighborhood of about 7 houses and no one is ever outside visiting with each other or playing together.  they keep locked up inside their homes.  i am outside all the time and i do visit the neighbors but they never visit me.  maybe i will do an experiment and not visit them and see what happens.  i do know a lot of mothers that do help at their kids schools.  i was one of them but, my children are teenagers now.  i really enjoyed volunteering.  we need to teach our children as they are growing up that these things are important, especially visiting the elderly.  we will all be old someday and the last thing i want is to die a lonely old person.

Answer 13

Gone and don't think it'll be coming back!!!

Answer 14

I still maintain the community spirit.  I started Crime Watch in my neighborhood, I have 15 years as a Red Cross volunteer in disaster services.  Helping others brings me great joy.

Answer 15

A lot of the problem seems to be that people in communities come from all over the country now...at one time everybody grew up in the same street and looked out for each other....now we don't talk to the new neighbours anymore

Answer 16

Thats life we have to move with the times.