To be Respectful

I constantly remind myself who I have become and that what I am doing now, I must always be respectful towards others. The everyday incidences that I encountered on the streets, with friends, families, colleagues and people that we meet for the first time, all command the word "Respect".

Everybody needs a little respect. We know when we have respect and when we don’t. But what is respect really?

It is to treat other people the way we want to be treated.

- Be courteous and polite.

- Listen to what other people have to say.

- Don't insult people, or make fun of them, or call them names.

- Don't bully, pick on others or ignore them

- Don't judge people before we get to know them.

- Treat people the same no matter their race, religion, gender, size, age, or country of origin.

Remember respectful people value others and they help other people value themselves. Perhaps the most important factor to understand about respect is that, it is not given automatically by others but that it must be earned.

Although these ideas will help avoid insensitive and unmeant disrespect, however, alot of people don't even respect themselves to begin with, so how could we possibly expect them to respect us. It is important to remove anyone from our life that doesn't treat us the same.

We are allowed to put someone in their place if we don't like how they speak to us. We do not have to smile and laugh at what someone says if we do not want to. We don't have to say yes and agree with someone if we don't agree with them. We can say no if someone asks to do something we don't want to do. We do not have to be around people who make us feel bad. we do not have to bear and grin at anything. Stand up for what we believe in.

Some take people for granted easily and also because they don't know the importance of respect. They want us to be easily manipulated for their selfish needs.

Stand firm in our beliefs and convictions and just be our self and if we feel disrespected, speak up and say... we deserve respect. Or simply kick that person out of our life.