-Emily Post
Behaving in a thoughtful and considerate way helps both morally and aesthetically to make the world a better place. A place where differences in income bracket, age, gender, race, culture and religion are all set aside for common decency towards fellow humans- all our brothers and our sisters, related and unrelated to you. Every single human being is important, regardless of their status quo.
Be nice and assume niceness in others. Good manners are universally appealing and make for a kinder, better, happier life for us and those around us. Lead by example. Far from politeness is the being who is snobbish, arrogant or boring, always show consideration and thoughtfulness to those around us works on every level, with all people from the postman to the queen, and also in respect with nature, from the cat to the tree.
Use socially acceptable and respectful good behavior. Have positive expectations, roles and hopes for yourself and your society, and expect to fulfill them in a way where we can serve and relate to each other in a more pleasant manner. Mutual respect, responsibility and accountability towards each other to build an inclusive society where no one can be human alone and where everyone is responsible for the welfare of others in the society. Re-learn to love thy neighbour.
Manners will ease your way through the toughest obstacles in life. To make everyday encounters that much more bearable to live. Consider polite treatment to your waitress a high duty to society, saying thank you to your bus driver is a service to your world, and offering help to the old man in the car park find his lost car as a huge responsibility to your community. Reconsider your treatment of those who are terminally ill, the homeless, etc. What a wonderful place the world would be, if everyone acted like that.
I can behave quite uncannily like a Normal Person for most of the time, but bearing witness to rudeness or improper behaviour to myself and others sends me over the edge sometimes. Can you blame me? I was brought up with principles and morals, and sure, we all make mistakes sometimes. I have made my own also. I have learned from them. I have always strived to be a better person.
Good manners cost nothing, but using them is priceless. “It´s nice to be nice” as my father-in-law back in England always says. And I heartily agree.
I offer this information for the change it has brought to the way I face the world each day. I have been instilled with the notion that absolutely nobody worth knowing will ever put me down, and for those that have?
I just picked myself up, dusted myself off, and start all over again. Don’t let the Bastards get you down. It is always the bastards that fall and NEVER forget that. Stick to what you feel is right, your morals and your principles, but don´t assume you´re always right either, keep your mind open. We always learn new lessons right to the day we die. Just because you´re older doesn´t make you wiser, and never forget that. Life teaches us lessons, each and every day. Some people spend the rest of their lives learning the same lessons over and over again and eventually, they learn or worse, they just give up. The signs of it is every where, the junkies, the alcoholics, people dealing with serious depressions, others in serious therapy, they forgot all about kindness and filled their lives up with garbage and just couldn´t get away. Sad. They forgot what it is to be truly human. They forgot their dreams and their aspirations and eventually let them all go. Closed hearts, closed souls. People living in the cages they built around themselves. Because in life, every action causes a reaction, and let´s hope the actions we make, let them always kind, that kindness will always be thrice returned. And those who harm, the harm will be thriced returned.
The true freedom is being comfortable with who I am and having nothing to hide.
for all the world’s a stage, and all it´s men and women merely players…
