Why Do We Respect Others

There was a time when I sat back thinking about a word that may have lost its meaning among people all around the world. It is the word, respect. I don’t understand what is really happening so that people tend to forget or ignore what this word really means. Starting from that time, I came to this thinking which influenced my life up a lot. I am not only talking about the literal meaning of the word, respect, that we can find in the dictionary but more into what this word really means to me, and what I really believe as a reflection of this word.

I believe that respect is everybody’s right. No one should ever hold back respect from anybody. The thing is, sometimes people build levels on respecting other people. This is very sad and bad. How can people see someone’s social class, position or job, background, age, intelligence, even appearance to determine whether they deserve respect or not. Discrimination happens a lot. Moreover, people often discriminate others just because the way they are. To me, respect should highly be shown in a genuine consciousness. Whoever  the person is, what they do for good, where they come from, how old they are,or how much money they can earn each month, even how attractive their appearance is, should never be a boundary of getting respect. They deserve it with or without any vivid reason.

This is how I think respect should be realized: Throw away all the ego and pride that mostly drive people to live in a circle of exclusivity. Get away from the habit of  looking down on others for their weaknesses or simply their differences. Start respecting them no matter what. Sometimes, we also don’t get any respect from others, so to have the respect we should first respect others, sooner or later others will respect us too. Remember, whatever you expect from others to do for you, do it first, you will somehow get what is better than the things you can ever imagine. God watches over everything. He watches your genuine heart.