When the self carries its self with respect, it is reflected with perpetual respect, love, humility and honour, from every corner of the universe. Respect is love of, if not thee most enduring pillars of self-love, and self-pride. It is from this pillar of self-love: respect, that people form high expertise and opinion about another person, which can be positive or negative.
In today’s social cohesion, people are respected for various kinds of interpersonal relations, whether business related or intimate relationships. However some of these associations are based on a negative pillar of respect – arrogance.
Arrogance is a poison to the self, which leads to a person thinking that they are superior to others in all likely ways in life, therefore no one else matters by crook or trait. Arrogance, in most junctures, leads individuals to committing unremitting crimes against other individuals, nations and humanity. An example would be heads-of-states who believe that because, they were given a mandate to guide their nations, now they have the right to manipulate power and corrupt the whole governing system; which of cause forcibly lead to many of these heads-of-states, facing crimes against humanity.
In many homes around the world, you find that adults are disrespected by their own conceited children. Children who lack, self-love and self-respect - no, not by any means that their parents don’t have respect. It’s the failure to instil respect and self-love that makes children unruly and conceited towards others, which brings an abusive game and shame within the household. Creating an unrelenting circle of abuse of children-to-adults that will filter into our society.
The positive side of respect creates a well rounded individual, that aims to build themselves and others without humiliating, disrespecting or dehumanizing others. Which is the positive filled with all the aspects of self-transcending-love; self-esteem, self-worth, self-consistency, self-love and self-respect.
On the other hand, there is a fine line between narcissism and self-transcending-love which affect the three essentials of self - Mental Exercise, Emotional Exercise, and Physical Exercise. A conceited individual starts off with a decorous façade of success, when in reality they are headed for a humongous calamity overflowing with corruption. In opposition to conceit - an individual with respect starts on a modest path of love, hard work and charity that takes them to a life teeming with abundance and longevity.
Parents need to teach their children to have respect for them, for their household, for themselves and for other people. A lesson that perpetual respect, love, humility and honour brings endless rewards in their loves, which is not shame but fame.
WORD TO A NEW SELF-RESPECT REVOLUTION
By Linda Sakazi Thwala
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