After going through an in-depth reflection on my life, it opened my eyes to how greatly holding respect in high regard has significantly constructed various aspects of my life. Respect has acted as a prime shaper of my life because it has been very important to me in numerous things in everyday life and I didnt even realize it. It is important to me because it plays a significant role in addressing disputation with other people around me and its also a key to many things in life. One example of what respect is key to is success. Whether that be obtaining a job for myself, having a successful intimate relationship, being successful in school, etc. I have to respect my manager or teachers, even if I dont agree with them to increase my chances of succeeding in that way. In partners, respect is crucial to shaping the relationship in a good or bad way. Even though in particular, one relationship of mine didnt exactly last, what was successful to me was the fact that I loved and most importantly respected him. I gave him space, listened to him, compromised, built him up, did things I didnt exactly agree with, for his sake, etc. It was a success for me because personally, I know that I tried my best and respected him in any way I could and that’s all I could do. I wanted to make him feel like he mattered to me. Although the respect wasnt mutual, that also plays into respect because I had to respect myself and leave him, and if I hadnt have showed respect to him or respected myself in that situation it would have caused a lot of conflict
s. In everyday relationships, respect makes me feel valued, and I’m sure it does for everyone else and it brings a sense of peace even with strangers. Respect is fundamental to an abundant quantity of relationships that form my life because to respect is to grasp the fact that the other individual is not you, not a reflection of you, not a version of you, they are their own person and raised differently. Respect was to open my eyes and realize that I need to acknowledge that someone is a unique individual and learn to connect my personal needs to theirs. It was realizing that my job isnt to change them in the direction I want, but it creates an emotional bond. It helps carry a relationship with anybody when conflict comes up. Even now, if a fast food place is taking a long time I take the time to understand instead of jumping to creating conflict and I think that is respect, opening up your eyes to the fact that even if I didn’t understand what was taking them so long or when I don’t understand why another car is speeding, that I never really knew the circumstances so had to understand that I dont understand them. Respect is also very valuable to me because it enables peace and opens many doors in all relationships like trust and security. Respect allows other people to disagree with me but also still allows a sense of other people in my life to have the ability to express things. There are so many conflicts in today’s world and society; respect can overall, unite people, so that is why its important to me in everyday life.