Caring about Others, the most Required Trait Today
Minjae Moon
Today the world is going through a critical stage, thanks to advanced technology communication with other people became more accessible and faster. However, many people are suffering from depression and communication between people reduced drastically. More people are suffering from depression, and people are neglected by each other. These phenomena are derived from the lack of emotional bond between people nowadays. The definition of emotional bond is that bundle of subjective feelings that come together to create a bond between two people. The new technology undoubtedly enhanced our ability to contact other people, but it took away our bonding between humans. I want to see the significant emotional bond again like the time when human only knew a few friends but extremely deeply compared to now. I am pretty sure that if this occurs, it will make a great relationship in individual level and make a prosperous society which will benefit the whole community.
There is a smaller scale of the beneficial effect of having a strong bond with people. Individuals will think that they are strictly related to other people due to social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. However, this assumption will bring disappointment when they realize that was just an illusion provided by the internet. Friends on the internet cannot be the true friend because there is not any bonding between each other. On the internet, people post about most happy and cool parts in their life. Since the internet friends only get the information from your posts, they are not able to feel your agony or sadness. This sad reality will be exposed to you when your condition goes down. Friends whom you thought the true friends would go away from you because your outside part only attracted them. On the other hand, friends in the real world who share emotional bond will give strength to you and help you. These friends will be a crucial part of your life because life cannot be happy without good friends around you. They will be with you when you go into a slump and carry you out from that black place. Therefore, the emotional bond will bring enormous benefit to your life when you can bring it back.
Emotional bond will eventually change the whole society when the society equipped it. A community is all about the connection between the people in that community. Everything occurs based on the relationships that members share and create. Unfortunately, people nowadays, they do not have a stable connection with other people in society. Without that critical factor, society is now corrupting than ever before. For example, in the past in Korea, we knew about the people living next door because we had attention to each other and care about each other. As a result, we could get help from the neighbors when we need some help and also we could enjoy the neighborhood life like exchanging some food or having a person to say hello. However, without those good connections between the members especially with neighbors, many people do not even notice the death of their neighbors. They might be still alive if people cared about the others and had an emotional bond with others. By having an emotional bond, society can save people’s lives.
Even in this rugged society, some people have a tremendous emotional bond to human society and work hard to keep that tradition. The firefighter who goes into the fire without hesitating, donating every estate to the society when even before their death. The society respects their choice and admires them. By looking at this fact, we need more people like these people to make a happier society. It is true that this requires hard work by most of the members of the society. Even though this is extremely hard if the whole society changes little by little I can guarantee that someday we can give this beautiful present to the next generation.
