Lazy society

Society... is lazy, I just noticed.

Lazy, lazy. Expectant, spoiled, taking for granted that they have the right to have access to everything and anything that anyone else does.

I say this as perceived from a guy who was lived in two different US cities for the past... 2.5 years now. I think about society today, and I see... laziness.

I woke up this morning at 5AM, and I was hungry, so I went to look for some food in the refrigerator. I had nothing left except dry oats, with no milk to pour on it, so I thought about how could I get some food and satisfy my hunger. It was too early for the grocery store to be open, so I started thinking about other options. Where else could I get food at this time? Hmm, a 24h restaurant maybe, but they were fairly far away, and I just wanted to have a bite of something quick, not have a full breakfast yet.

I realized then how dependent are we on others' services. The grocery store. What ever would we do without a grocery store? I would not be able to eat without grocery stores - for sure I wouldn't be going to restaurants every day to eat. A majority of the people in the city must be equally, if not more, dependent on them. What about other shops? Clothing stores, furniture stores, telecommunication companies... what would happen if they weren't around. There is such a HUGE dependency on companies, corporations... we're glued onto being part of society by the way of life we have grown with. I, at least.

But it's not just the dependency. Do you notice how, tacitly, automatically, we expect there to be all of these things everywhere, whenever we come into a new place? At least I do. I move somewhere... so there MUST be a grocery store nearby, right? Or else how would anyone else LIVE around there? But such a huge dependency... it seems to me... is potentially catastrophic.

So what would happen if grocery stores were no longer able to serve us? If they just decided "nah, we're tired, we're no longer going to open our stores", what would happen? What could we do? Can we get food ourselves? Do people know, at all, how to grow food, fetch water, supply for their own needs?

We don't :(. I think it's sad. People don't know how to fill their own needs. They know how to do so, GIVEN that everyone else acts as required, but now by themselves. This may sound a tad exaggerated, but I think this dependency is sickening. And a lot more so because many of us don't even know it's there. Sigh.