Where's The Glamour?

      Ahh yes, living life in style. Back in a time when life was about more than trying to get everything done in the most efficient way possible. A time when the main effort was not to make as much money as possible without spending a dime. A period when time could be spared to invest into things like glamour and class. Somehow, we have lapsed out of this beautiful life of glitz and glamour. One may say that as a white female, living on a suburban street in the United States is living in high style. However, I'm not talking about each individual, but society as a whole. We no longer strive for beauty, but for quick and cheap. We no longer strive for class, but for profit and whatever will "get the job done". All I can say, is that it is such a shame.
     My prime example of this concept is the airline industry. The mode of travel that is flight has become downright commonplace nowadays. However, back in the day, flying on an airplane meant that you were in higher class of people. You were riding in style. In exchange for giving the airline business, they would give you a comfortable ride. The flight attendants were there to be pretty, smile, and fluff your pillow. The pilots - in their swanky and mysterious uniform - were darn near super stars. If a pilot was seen on the street, little girls may even ask for their autograph. The airline industry was the picture of glamour. Today, what do you think of when I mention flying on an airplane? Rude flight attendants who sneer at you when you ask for a glass of water? Not getting a pillow and blanket unless you pay extra to be in first class? That's right. No longer is their main goal to make you, the consumer, comfortable and keep the industry a place of high-class transportation, but to get the job done. Their only hope is that they get you to where you paid to go safely, and as cheaply as possible.
      Why is it that our country has lost its sense of class? No longer is going to the cinema a classy night of fun, but it's seen as a cheap alternative. No longer is flying on an airplane seen as an ordeal of style, but a mundane process of getting from point A to point B. Being a flight attendant or pilot is no longer seen as special or exciting, but an almost unfortunate career. The shadow of cheap efficiency has taken over our country's sense of class, elegance, and downright glamour. My challenge: strive for beauty, not cheap. Hope for elegance, not what's quick. Bring back a sense of class to our society.