Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Dilemmas: A Series of Significance (SoS): #1 Respect

The dilemma… in most peoples lives is respect, and lack there of. Encounters from other people and there individual interaction with one another plays a massive role in where we stand in our own lives. The problem could as simple as; telling a friend your opinion about another person. The basic fact is, as we (the current generation of young adults) become older, we should learn to respect others more. The only dilemma with this is, everyone has the capacity to accept others, but we choose not to for reasons that are as strong /weak as the lessons that we learn about ourselves. This comes for most after their ‘maturity’ has set in for the rest of their lives. This ‘maturity’ may take as long as 30 years to be fully established in a person, which is disappointing but the harsh reality we come to tolerate and acknowledge in today’s society.

Maybe someday we will learn the full truth about others once we have learnt everything about ourselves first. Self-respect is commonly known as the behaviour we pride ourselves on. The respect of accepting the person we are; towards others and most important themselves.

Maybe the dilemma isn’t respect at all; it could something more sinister we haven’t come to learn yet.

1 comment:

chris said...

ahh very nice!! well i do agree with you, there are always people with profound respect...and lack thereof haha something we need to live with i suppose! i think someones vanity can turn self-respect into self-absorbed though, when someone casts a high opinion on themselves its no different than casting a low opinion on someone else.

and thats my two cents! very nice write...but ive forgotten what SOS stands for, fill me in again? :P