Posted on February 4, 2012
I love Downton Abbey. It reminds me of what people seem to have lost over a span of a hundred years- manners. Manners are not just about being socially adept, but respect for the people you interact with. It is not just minding how you look or how you relate to others, but how others feel in your presence- whether you unnerve them or make them feel at ease. It is having in mind the pleasure and comfort of others. It is respecting other people’s decisions not to divulge certain matters of their lives; not because they are skeletons in the closet, but because they are private. It is living with dignity, and never allowing yourself to live beneath your own worth. It is never stooping down, because stooping down once makes it easier the second time. It is respect, not just tolerance- a sincere effort to understand a fellow human being, without the feeling of superiority.
I love Downton Abbey because each character has a story. And the narrative has done a superb job of showing just how individual lives mesh to create a picture bigger than life itself.
I love Downton Abbey because they live in the cusp of revolutionary ideas that are to define the succeeding generations. There’s just so much wind to be caught by sails, and everyone a captain of his soul.
