Deep Respect is Unrelenting

Can you show respect to people whom you have had bad experiences with? Respect is a demonstration of love 24/7 in your household, school or workplace. Hardly, many people would say that respect is a conditional attribute, something that should be earned. Or is it?

While many wouldn’t dare to show this deep regard to other people, respect is becoming a necessity that’s almost as valuable as precious stones. Sure, not many are eager to show respect to you and it can be vise versa. This is especially true if you have preconceive ideas about the other person in authority. Your biases may not promote respect to that person and there you have a big challenge, especially if that person is holding an authority you need to regard on a day to day basis. What would you do? Would you consider respect as conditional and must be shown with few chosen people only?

I’d say it’s unlikely for us to show unconditional respect if we’re hurt, threatened. That’s given and it’s but natural to act in contrast of that respect if we’re not shown the same right? What's worse is that many would retaliate, revenge and show hurtful acts toward other people. Indeed, you'll do the same if you couldn't control your emotions, that you think you’re the victim and that the other person needs to be punished or suffer the consequences. Without much consideration, we fall greatly to our biases and let that negative emotion crawl into our system.

Painfully, we deliberately show that person how awful he/she is by showing uncanny acts during his/her presence. Some people tend to provoke that person by saying nasty words against him/her. At times, we surrender our personal empathy and let ourselves calloused by continually ignoring the other person’s feeling, regardless how sorry he/she was.

How in the world can you peacefully sleep if your heart is full of negative emotions, revenge and ill thoughts? Sure, you were the victim in a specific situation. But have you tried probing for the real reasons why you became the victim? Lest, have you tried reasoning out to yourself what’s the real score, the real situation resulting to your pain? Remember, letting yourself burdened with unnecessary negative emotions disengages you from sane moments and prevents you from enjoying worthy time of your life by freeing yourself with too much worries and anxieties.

These negative emotions may also hinder you from unclogging your thoughts with problems and may possibly twist your judgment on so many occasions. Admit it or not but these are the least situations you’d likely to happen isn’t it? So before you show disrespect and indulge yourself with so much anxieties toward the other person, realize first that it’s you personally who will suffer the consequences in the long run. Thus, if there’s really no reason to release so much energy thinking on how to penalize the other person for his/her so-called badness, empower yourself with goodness instead.

Take into consideration good words from Galatians 6:10 which states “let us work what is good toward all.” Wouldn't you feel really good to show respect and goodness to people? Yes, come up with the real joy by showing respect to all people and you’ll gain the same respect due to you. Truth is that you don't have to bribe people to gain respect. Initiate it within you. Radiate that positive aura and show respect all the time. You'll get more than what you expect. This big "R" is not an old school but an innate ancient attribute natural to all. That means we have all the right and all the time to manifest such positive behavior. Use it unconditionally. Besides, respect begets respect isn’t it?

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