People Nowadays

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present. In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. 

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

It is more likely that an individual will help a person in need if they are alone than if they are with a group. In the picture above, for example, if there had just been one individual on the shore side compared to the group there would more of a chance the individual might have been rescued. One explanation behind this effect is diffusion of responsibility, which means that our sense of responsibility decreases within a large group of people

It is our sense of "not wanting to get involved" that allows preventable tragedies to happen before our eyes, or worse, before our phones. People today do not only hesitate to help, but instead prefer to adjust the camera on their phones to get a clearer image. It seems like we would rather be the witnesses than helpers, the observers rather than the doers, the accomplices rather than the heroes. What if the person being murdered was a loved one, and you found out that there were 38 witnesses that could have helped, but didn't? What if you were the one begging for help, only to find out that instead of being rescued, you where being recorded? Sometimes someone else will help, sometimes they won't; but if we can,