Respect

Respect

Respect. What is respect? Well, the dictionary says that respect is a deep admiration for someone's abilities, qualities, or achievements, but it can also mean just being kind to someone even if they have opposing viewpoints, beliefs, ideals, morals, etc.

Respect should be a quality in everyone, or everyone should at least try to respect each other. Some people may find it difficult to respect someone they may have been raised to hate, or found themselves hating, or at least disliking, whether it’s a group of people, or a single person. Respect could help so many fights, and arguments be avoided. Maybe it could even keep wars from happening, but people are so different, war, and fights are unfortunately inevitable, but with one-on-one fights, respect can make all the difference.

Especially on the internet, or through social media, you may hear about all these fights between people going on, or you yourself have had a fight with someone online. I myself have fought people online, but I try my best to respect the others opinion or belief, while also showing them mine. That’s what most people could do, while also getting their point across.

People online may feel like they can say anything and not get in any trouble for it, or their confidence may rise because they’re not speaking face to face. In many cases, that is true, and that is bad if said person online is using their anonymity to tell people that what they think, or feel, or believe in is wrong and then even going as far as telling the person they’re speaking to that they are stupid for what they believe in, and sometimes even telling the other person to kill themselves.

That is not cool.

Nobody should be telling anyone to kill themselves for what they think, or do, or say. I get that some things people do are bad, and the people doing or saying bad things should be punished or reprimanded for that, but suicide and death should never be the answer to a problem.

Respect needs to make its way into the world.

So many battles can be avoided if people just respected that not everyone is like them. No matter if it’s because of someone’s race, gender, age, sexuality, belief, likes, dislikes, parents, job, housing situation, financial situation, etc.

Respect others, even if you can’t respect what they may believe in, dislike, like, etc. Respect everyone you meet. They are a person just like you, and if what the like, dislike, believe in, etc, makes them happy, and is keeping them from doing anything bad, like suicide, that does not give you the right to tell them to kill themselves.

Even if someone can’t respect what someone thinks, feels, or believes in, they should still respect them as a person. No matter what.

Respect everyone

For Everyone is a person

Just like you and me