It started out to be a way to bring into prospective what is most important in life and relationships, but ended up being more disturbing as a whole about a younger generation of men. The general question, is if you are far away from everything that you know in life what do you think you would miss the most? Would it be a car, movie, game system, places to eat or someone that is in your family which would you miss the most? The first person gave a simple answer; he said everything and not one thing in particular. This was like saying that everything, including a human being that is thought of as a loved one, is equal and there is no real emotional attachment to anything over another. After a while of thinking about it, I asked another young man in the family and got basically the same answer.
This reminded me of a recent incident, where my daughter asked her soon to be ex-husband whether he was at the house because of her and his sons or simply because he had no where else to be? His answer was because he did not have anywhere else to be.
Three young men of about the same age and all lacking an emotional attachment to those who they should have this attachment to. That the human beings were of no more importance then the objects they also enjoy spending time with. A wife or a child is not more important to them than a good cup of coffee or an enjoyable game to play. Simply something that they enjoy spending time doing or having around at the moment. They boil down the only reason to be in any relationship as a convenience of the moment. They aren’t saying their loved one would be missed, but rather that they could be replaced and are not a special selection among any other who would also perform the same functions as someone to talk to or be around.
The ability to have emotional attachment gives us the ability to see others as special or even fellow human beings. That goes beyond those outside of our family and in a sense our own value as human. Lacking it is what enables everything from theft to mass murder like in the case of Hitler. If this had been shown in only one individual it is a matter of concern but in three in the same generation and from different families is alarming and makes me wonder if it is a symptom of the generation?
Emotional attachment is a key benchmark of being a human being and one of the foundations of the very concept of humanity.
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