RESPECT!!! Whatever happened to the use of this word? How can these seven letters be so forgotten and meaningless especially in the times we live in today?
Respect:
Noun
1. consideration: respect for my feelings
2. an attitude of deference or esteem
3. the state of being honoured or esteemed
4. a detail or characteristic: in virtually all respects boys develop more slowly than girls
5. in respect of or with respect to in reference or relation to
6. respects polite greetings: he paid his respects to her and left
Verb
1. to have an attitude of esteem towards: she is the person I most respect and wish to emulate
2. to pay proper attention or consideration to: he called on rebel groups to respect a cease-fire [Latin respicere to pay attention to]
respecter n
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
This piece, I copied and pasted here is the definition of respect. And yet I have not seen this in parts of my family as of late??? And yet on the other hand, they speak nothing other than respect. But do not practice it when it comes to one's wishes??? Is that or is that not two-faced? I will leave that up to others to decide, because I cannot judge. I can only speak of what I see.
Cheers, John
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