WORLD OF WISDOM ZINGER - RESPECT
RESPECT
Respect is synonymous to; admiration, esteem, consideration,
relation or reverence for someone.
Respect the people you meet on your way up
because you will meet them on your way down.
Respect is what makes leaders, servants.
Respect is what makes the upish, lowly in heart and deed.
Respect is what severs religious, political, ethnic and racial
differences and welcomes tolerance and acceptance.
Respect makes the child, young and adult wiser.
Respect is like the adrenaline which manages human responses;
Respect is like the thermostat which regulates the thermostat
of gadgets or equipments;
respect is like UPS or step-downs which controls the flow of unwanted voltages.
Respect is what makes a child being a child, the young being youth
and an adult being elderly.
Respect is what makes a child continue to love an elderly who is irresponsible.
Respect is what makes that old nonentity act responsibly
each time he or she set eyes on you.
Respect is what makes employers relate humane to their employees and otherwise.
Respect is what made Jesus Christ wash the feet of his disciples.
Respect unite nations and people.
Respect is antonymous to disregard, inconsiderable and detestable.
One respect deserves another.
Respect is what makes a husband love his wife.
Respect among people, ethnic groupings, races, genders, religions and nations
is what breeds tolerance and peace.
Respect is what made Mahatma Ghandi of India; a Hindu, Christian, Muslim,
Buddhist and any other religion you can think about.
Respect is what made Martin Luther King Jr. of USA fight
against racial segregation.
The need and desire for respect is what motivated colonial countries
to shed blood for their independence.
Respect for humanity is what motivated Thomas Jefferson and Franklin
of USA to buy slaves and return them to Africa,
particularly where they founded the nation Liberia
respect for another is what made Lao-Tzu, say;
‘ the sage has no mind of his own. He takes as his own the mind of the people.
Those who are good, I treat as good. Those who are not good, I also treat as good.
In so doing, I gain in goodness’.
( ref. ‘ World of Ideas. 4th edition, Jacobus. A. Lee)
Those who have respect, I have respect for. Those who do not have respect,
I still have respect for. In so doing, I gain in respectfulness.
The legendary musician, Lucky Dube said, ‘ even if we don’t like each other,
we don’t agree with what the other people are doing,
we don’t have love for the other people in our lives,
but if we have respect… the world can be a better place for all of us’.
He also said, ‘ in the past, we have talked about love, unity and stuff like that,
but, we forgot that unity and love don’t mean nothing if we don’t have respect’
In Lucky’s song ‘Respect’, he said, ‘respect who I am and not what I am.
Give love to those who give you love, love to those who give you war.
Give love to those who hate you, bless even those who curse you’.
This to me, is one of the most profound lyrics I have ever heard.A
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