Just my own opinion gained from experience...people in here all talk about the most important things in life being life itself or love or self-worth or money or friends but can you have any of those things without first having respect for them?
2007-01-10 02:14:58 · 10 answers · asked by laveranda1 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hey laveranda,
My catchphrase for the year, and my platform for life is Respect. You must respect another person to have any meaningful exchange.
If you disagree with someone, you need to have listened to them to understand their position. You may agree to disagree. That would be respectful.
If you do not respect money, you might just frivolously give it all away.
If you do not respect food, you can get food poisoning.
If you do not respect your automobile, it may break down for lack of maintenance.
My interest in the topic of Respect is the people relationships, social relationships, and bodies of people. Every major religion in the world has some form of Respect at the core of it's moral body of rules. Karma for example, 'what goes around, comes around'. The Golden Rule, 'do unto others as you would have others do unto you'.
Relationships are the most important thing in life. Respect is the core of relationships.
2007-01-10 03:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humanity must realize that FAITH is the basis for self-respect. If you have no faith in God or yourself and others, there IS nothing to respect. Without respect, material things are of NO value.
If you do not respect YOURSELF, you will not assign any value to the respect of others; if you do not respect OTHERS, you will not place any value on them, their values, or their friendship.
If you assign no value to faith or respect, your lack of respect for yourself and others makes love, material possessions, and even life itself quite worthless; however if you inject FAITH and belief into the equation, respect for everything is again viable.
2007-01-10 10:32:00 · answer #2 · answered by fiddlesticks9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Respect has to be the foundation for your love, without respect for that person it means nothing.
2007-01-11 13:48:34 · answer #3 · answered by solstice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well what's the difference between self-love and respect?
But you could of course live on an island and never have respect for anyone and survive just fine.
2007-01-10 13:01:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love your question!....From experience....I guess the best way to look at it is this...My first husband "loved" me (16 years of marriage)...he "provided" for me yet he had no "respect" for me...meaning that my feelings, thoughts, emotions, what I enjoyed in life didn't matter. He WAS physically abusive but then turned emotionally, verbally, mentally abusive (which is worse)..I respected him because I loved him and wanted him to thrive and I wanted to be respected so that I could "feel" his love...It is very hard to "accept" love without respect. I divorced him in 1997 BECAUSE I loved him. I was doing him an injustice by not letting him "hurt" and learn from his mistakes. He respected me more after the divorce and we became very close. He was proud that respected myself. When I started to "learn" to respect myself is when he started to respect me. He was killed in an auto accident in 2000. Now?...I have two sons, 19 and 23...I know they "love" me but they have NO respect for me. When they want something, Mom can do it...yet when it comes to extremely simple responsibilities (earlier years) I was asking too much. Now if I ask them something or try to talk to them about anything I am cut short, sarcastically answered, cussed out and what I feel doesn't matter (until it is too late)....They have plenty of money and they blow a lot of it..They don't even know how to pay a bill and I have offered to shpw them online billpay..They act as if I am a nuisance! I am trying to help them learn to do things and they don't want to learn...when hell breaks loose?..they run to me....me? I am on disability...I am having very bad financial difficulties and they know it. They say they want to help...but they want to question my ability to handle money and it seems to give them a sense of "control" to loan or give me money therefore I would rather live in a cardboard box than accept anything from them..They are more interested in financially helping people that have NO respect for them...I love them dearly yet I recently decided that I have to keep my distance from them. They are sucking every bit of happiness out of me. I have to respect myself, therefore I refused to be "abused". If they treat their own mother like that then what kind of relationships will they have?...I have already seen failure in thier relationships....LONG STORY SHORT?...You have to respect yourself first. Only then will you recognize when you are being disrespected and no one deserves that. Respect from others is earned, it cannot be "bought". It cannot be manipulated, and it can't be fake. It boils down to "treat others as you would like to be treated"...My kids treat me like crap because they have no self respect for themselves. (unfortunately they grew up in this type atmosphere)...I am hurt very deeply by thier behavior towards me yet I cannot change that. I actually believe they narcissistic personality disorder a/k/a NPD...THAT one is a doozie!...look it up...it hurts so bad that I cannot change them or get them to even realize that the way they treat others is not normal...inside they are very beautiful kids. They mean well, but they don't act that way. sorry so long but I DO know where you are coming from.
2007-01-10 11:16:52 · answer #5 · answered by millstone7201 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
respect requires knowledge.
2007-01-10 10:27:44 · answer #6 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can want something i dont respect i want food but i dont respect it
2007-01-10 10:36:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe maybe not, sounds like youn ahve a particular issue taht you needt o consider. one thing i HAVE is my thoughts, theya re mine
2007-01-10 20:55:55 · answer #8 · answered by cav 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what difference that does that make, it is purely perspective which has nothing to do with possession
2007-01-10 10:19:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
""Getting anything or anywhere is not a big deal...what matters is ...how long you can sustain it...!!""
2007-01-10 11:14:08 · answer #10 · answered by contentsoul 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋