Reason to be Respectful

I am Catholic. Being Catholic means that I am a servant of God; made in his image, good and divine, just as He was. My faith is an extremely large part of me. It makes me who I am. My faith helps me make tough decisions about right from wrong; it influences me to help others. Faith is a strong belief assigned to us by God Himself. My life is solely based off of the faith I have grown up with.

If I had any other faith, I would be a completely different person, with completely different morals, values, and beliefs. To me, respect is an important part of growing up. When you show that you have learned to respect others, it is a sign of maturity, of strength, and of confidence. When you are confident and accepting enough to respect yourself, that is the true point in time when you are able to show others respect as well. Giving respect is a complicated thing to do. It means that someone can trust and value someone else enough to give them something as large and sacred as respect. Although very sacred, we are supposed to give others our respect regardless of the fact if we relish them or not. Along with respect, responsibility shows maturity. When a child goes through their adolescent stages, naturally, they grow up. The work gets harder, the days get longer, the expectations get higher, and our maturity levels grow. Part of growing up, is maturing, and understanding, and learning new things; things like being responsible. Now that I have briefly touched upon what each of these topics means to me, it is time for me to go into deeper detail. Respect. Small word, big meaning, and a massive amount of people want it; some who do not deserve it.

Respect has the same meaning and the same reasons for using it, no matter what school you go to, what religion you are, who your friends and family are, or where you grew up. Respect should be used and given to a janitor as much as it would be given to the non-existent president of the world. Respect is a key item to life; without respect, there would be no trust between people and there would be no civilized conversations or workplaces. My faith just modifies that reason to be respectful. Being that I was born and raised a Catholic, or a person created in God’s image in order to make the world a better place, I have stronger senses and urges to be kinder and more respectful. In all honesty, I strongly dislike (hate is too strong of a word for it to be used in any sentence) being rude, disrespectful, or insensitive because it makes me feel like a bad person. I feel this large knot at the pit of my stomach whenever I happen to snap at someone, or say something I did not really mean to say but did because I was angry; remorse. That is what it is called. This whole chain is connected in a way that most people probably do not think of. Naturally we do something bad because we are only human. This ‘bad thing’ causes us to feel remorse, remorse causes us to be kinder, being kinder causes closer relationships to people, closer relationships causes us to trust more, and trusting more leads us to being respectful. Now, since remorse is a natural emotion for every human, it goes up this ‘chain,’ meaning that every human can and should be respectful. Responsibility is honestly much more important and useful than people make it out to be. Responsibility is a lifestyle, a priority, a maturity, and sort of a cheat code to becoming a successful human being in the future. I know I may seem to be exaggerating this whole ‘responsibility thing’ but it is kind of true. Being responsible allows people to keep track of their materials, it keeps people on top of their work, and it motivates people to do better; so yes, I think responsibility should be over exaggerated. But wait, I am not done yet; that was only the purpose of responsibility in life. In the light of my faith, responsibility helps me do the same things but for different reasons. In life, responsibility helps people be successful. In my faith, responsibility helps me become more like God. It helps me do my best, determine right from wrong, and overall become a better person in the likeness of God.

Responsibility in my faith helps me keep track of my mission; becoming more like God, it keeps me on top of my mission, and it motivates me to do better. See, same things, different reasons. In conclusion, I think being responsible and respectful is a part of growing up, and naturally, we can mess things up. We can make mistakes, or not deserve people’s trust, or forget a homework assignment; but it is a part of growing up and becoming mature. Without failing or succeeding, we would not know how to properly function. If we never succeed, we can never feel the sweet taste of victory, or the pride that bubbles in our chests; and without failing, we would not know how good it feels to succeed, when we finally succeed, we want to try harder in order to have that amazing feeling again. Respect and responsibility are powerful and important for anyone to have, but also a couple of the hardest to come by. Going through adolescent stages and being expected to be perfectly responsible and always respectful is kind of hard to come by; it takes some adjusting and patience. Although it is hard to come by, I will be trying to be as respectful and responsible as physically possible in order to start at a young age; because as I said above, responsibility and respect are main factors in succeeding in my faith and in my life.

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