{"id":255,"date":"2009-12-11T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayethics\/2009\/12\/a-decade-of-morals-have-yours-changed.html"},"modified":"2009-12-11T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T00:30:00","slug":"a-decade-of-morals-have-yours-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayethics\/2009\/12\/a-decade-of-morals-have-yours-changed.html","title":{"rendered":"A Decade of Morals &#8212; Have Yours Changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the decade winds to an end, it&#8217;s natural for us all to look back at the years behind us. Last night I shared a drink with a friend and reminisced about Y2K. I thought back to the friends I celebrated with, the relationships we had all been in &#8212; and how far we each have come.<\/p>\n<p>As often happens since the birth of this blog, I started to consider how my personal morals and ethics had developed over the last ten years. I think in many ways I&#8217;m less naive, yet more idealistic. Harder in some ways, and more passionate in others. And those changes have definitely played out in my daily ethical decisions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think that I make better, wise, kinder choices than I did ten years ago. It&#8217;s certainly easy to remember some royally bad decisions I made in the past, and to see that such screwups and failures have become less and less common.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if that is the norm; do we tend to become more &#8220;moral&#8221; as we age, or do we become harder and more self-concerned? <\/p>\n<p><strong>How have you grown in the last decade?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the decade winds to an end, it&#8217;s natural for us all to look back at the years behind us. Last night I shared a drink with a friend and reminisced about Y2K. 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