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So respect, what is it and how do we know it when we see/experience it?
Well it is not something that is per say visible, although people would want you to believe that by words like "look at me, I am respectful" because people like to fool others and people also un-wittingly and wittingly fool themselves.
So how to know?
Simple examples can make life's little dilemma much more clear, like this....
You are attending a party, you watch one of the people at the party, they are getting really drunk, excessively so, they are badgering the other guests, telling really poor tasteless jokes that everyone finds abhorrent & distasteful, they are getting so drunk that they are slurring there words and starting to drool over others, then they try to make out with the Hosts Wife.
Same party another guest, they drink careful, they participate in the conversations, and the fun, and the games, yet they don't push anything to far, they maintain their own sense of dignity, and by doing so they uphold your sense of theirs, and Yours.
So in those two examples it becomes very clear, and from visual example too, that one of those persons is acting in a respectful manner the other is clearly NOT.
What is the difference between the two? Simplest thing in the World, one of them is controlling themselves, the other is not.
So then that is, actually, what respect is, it is "The Gift to another of your own willingness to self-control"
All that is left, after that, is a simple question, should you believe someone when they tell you that they are a respectful person? or should you accept that they say that, then watch very carefully to see if they are "to thine (their) own words true" as that is what tells all of the difference in all of this.
It isn't the words that you speak, when someone doesn't know you, that count, it is how well you follow through on them, that is what tells the real truth.
So tell me are you a respectful person?
BTW if within all of this you found some idea of respect, then I didn't define it, You did.
