What made you think you deserve my Respect

I'm really a big fan of someone that treat others the same way they want to be treated and not just because it's a must but it just comes naturally because they've grown up with that character and they understand it's benefits of respecting others no matter the age difference.

Here in my country especially among my tribe Yoruba, respect is one of our qualities and it's rare to see a Yoruba man or woman lack respect but I find to be wrong is that we tend to relate respect with age and that shouldn't be. everyone deserves to be respected no matter their age because whatever you reflect on a child now that's what he/she would do to the younger ones when he/she grows old.

in Nigeria, it's very hard to find an elderly person accept that he/she is wrong to a child and they hate the fact that a child should be correcting them even though when they are wrong and if the child is correcting them respectfully, before you know they are already saying that the child lacks home training and this statement alone has put the child and his family in the same brackets that they all lack respect.

my experience among elderly people here in Nigeria is that, they infuse fear in the younger ones and whenever they are around they are only feared and because of that the younger ones tend to do what they are asked to do and they will do it, not because they respect them but it's because of the fear and when they leave a lot of things will be said at their back and that's the main difference between being feared and respected.

I experienced one drama at the bank recently,

I was the next in line to use the automated teller machine, and as I was about to walk towards it, an older woman came forward and expressed her need to use the ATM. Looking at her, I realized she was way too old to be on the queue , and I didn't want to leave her in the queue, so I recommended her to go ahead.

She passed by after using the ATM but couldn't say thank you to those in line, prompting another elderly man in line to inquire..... can't she open her mouth to say thank you? .....and she immediately began yelling and asking ridiculous questions, such as.....don't have any elderly people at home, do we? ...don't we have any regard for each other? ......didn't they do a good job of training us at home? ...... I was taken aback because this was the same woman who had just pleaded with her to use the ATM...

She was actually wrong for what she did; she should have said thank you at the very least because almost everyone has somewhere to go, but that didn't stop them from assisting her; however, she didn't consider this, and simply because she is older than everyone, she concludes that saying thank you is completely insignificant. just think respect start from oneself, if she had respect for herself she should be able to Respect younger ones like us.

maturity is not about age at all and sometimes we can use your level of respect to determine that, having respect will make you more approachable and obviously grant you more opportunities in life because you will always be an apprentice before you can be a master and an apprentice must always respect his master no matter what. whatever you do unto others that's what they will do to you, respect applies same way .

Thanks for reading ❣️❣️❣️

Do unto others what you what you want them to do to you.