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Like vs Respect
In this growing world, people are exposed a lot to the internet. It is rare to find a person that doesn't have a social media account and most people would do anything just to get the attention and likes they wanted. Some would show too much skin just to get these likes and attention. I mean, I totally respect your decisions. But I wonder, do you prefer to be liked? Or to be respected? Because most people these days, forget the value of respect. They complain that people are not respecting them. Well, what do you expect from revealing too much skin? You don't gain respect on that. You get likes but people will disrespect you especially uneducated and narrow minded people. There are people that like you but disrepect you. There are also people that respect you but dislike you. Like is where a person finds you agreeable, enjoyable or just features you have that they like. It is just temporary and can easily be changed. You can also be easily forgotten because people tend to like a lot of things. Respect, on the other hand, is where people hold some feelings of deep admiration to you or something you have done. Respect can be there for a long time, unless you do something stupid to change how they look at you. I find respect really important. If people respect you, even if they don't like you, they will not bother you and they will mind their own business. Compared to when people only like you but doesn't respect you, these people have a lot to say about you. I find the word like as a shallow thing that is breakable. They can insult you, betray you, talk about you and other disrespectful things. BUT, WE ALL WANT TO BE LIKED. Who doesn't? As for me, I prefer to be respected but it is not bad to ask for more, it definitely is better to have a mix of both. Getting like by people boosts our self-esteem but earning the respect from people lets you live a healthy life with a piece of mind. What about you? What do you prefer? If you only get to choose one, which would you choose?
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You are right There are many such ones who almost completely remove people Just to post their posts or get a lot of bad impressions PA most of those who do are women pity the Children who are writing on the internet because such work they see
Yes i agree with you, these people dont serve as good models to the young ones. It just produces more people like them 😞
That's why Kids are so miserable now that they see it on the internet that they think it's OK to imitate those.
I agree 😔
I think you have made clear a very important distinction here.
Right? Thank you very much @Mictorrani ❤️
I prefer to be respected of course. I don't even care if people like me or not. But what you wrote here is the sad reality of todays generation. A lot of people are losing even self-respect just to be trending and gain popularity or attention. This also shows that not all social media influencers are good influence.
Most influencers these days only care about money. So they try to be liked, try to gain more followers to become popular and sometimes others would just throw shade to anyone just to be famous. And all this for money. I feel bad for the children today
In today's world, value judgement is changing rapidly and I'm not comfortable with the new virtues. People become insatiable attention seekers and their behavior shaped around this idea. Sad to say though...
Yes. And I blame all this to the influencers that serve as role models to the children today. Most of them are only after money that they don't notice people getting influenced by their wrong doings and foul attitude
I summarize the situation as selling their souls :I Awesome post btw. Thanks mate.
Thank you for the appreciation! ❤️
If I only need to pick one, then I definitely want to be liked and not respected because you can also respect someone with fear but to like someone you have to love them!
Oh! I definitely get you there! Like when a kid respects his teacher because she decides for his grades but doesn't really like her because of her attitude and her teaching approach. Right! However, when you say to like someone is to love them. I respect your perspective but I don't really agree with it. As what I have also said on one of the comments, liking someone doesn't always mean that there's respect. Also, like is different from love. Like is way too unrelated to respect, whereas love is somewhat close to respect but still not on the same line. Say example, a boy can like someone's body. He appreciates it but he fantasizes deeply about it or he catcalls her. Others can even go to a point of being a pervert. That is like without respect. When you say love, we can love someone and respect them at the same time, but this respect can also be absent in love. Like how a boy can love his mother but disrespects her by talking back, getting ashamed of her or being violent to her. There are instances where there is love but no respect at all, usually the problem is with the person's attitude that has been there since he was a kid. But, with respect alone, it's different. I don't know, it's just my opinion hahaha I just find these words totally unrelated hehehe
Great post! I can't agree more with what you said. Respect indeed begets respect. Respect others, and others will respect you. Respect yourself, and others will respect you. I would choose Respect all the time rather than Likes. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I am with you! Thank you for the appreciation ❤️
Respect is not earned by everyone. It is very important for earn respect from others. Thank you for your article ☺
I couldn't agree more! Thank you for stopping by ❤️
You are most welcome.
Respect goes above like. People can hide their like for you but none can hide their respect for you. Like may not be seen but respect must surely be seen else it's not respect at all.
I AGREE
I prefer to be respected rather than liked. I agree that you can be liked but not respected. I personally think that respect is much deeper than what like is.
It is definitely much deeper! When someone respects you even if they dont like you, they try to not bother you. Not like with people who likes you but doesnt respect you, they destroy you when youre not looking. We cant afford that toxicity in our life. It drains our energy and wastes our time. Right? Haha stay safr aesop
A cant afford people who like me but dont respect 🤬
Absolutely. But we can never tell if they truly respect us especially with most people these days. They are good friends when youre with them but secretly destroys you at your back. Ridiculous. I hope we can easily determine the real ones to avoid getting hurt and not our waste our time 😩
True really hard to determine whos your friend and whos pretending friend In reality if you have lots of money you also have lots of friends
Hahaha yas! When we have good things, a lot of people ate trying to leech us of these good things. But when we barely have something, you barely have anyone as well hahaha crazy
Liking and respecting can be similar or can differ to each other depends upon the person acting upon the situation. You can like someone because you recognize their capabilities and respect will follow. You can also repect someone because of their position and integrity and the adoration will follows as you know them. For me it is based upon how deep your like or you respect a person. If you only respect or like them because of the superficial things then it can easily shattered. Welll its just my opinion hehehe. Keep writing ❤️
I agreee. You have a good point. Im not saying youre wrong but what youre saying doesnt happen all the time. For example, you respect a teacher no matter how strict and mean they are because youre afraid theyre going to fail you. So, there's respect but you don't really like them. Youre right like with my example youre forced to respect them because of the situation youre in. Thanks for dropping your opinion. I love it 😊
Hahaha no problem. People have a variety tu of opinions in many things. Thats why we are all unique. Thank you for reading my comments thou💓