"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." - Jackie Robinson
Respect is the one thing that all of us strive for in some manner during our life time. Respect doesn't have to be earned, so much as it has to be learned. Human life deserves respect, leaders in a democracy, dead or alive deserve respect and until you can step up as they have to the best of their ability, and put yourself in that position respecting their leadership is the most respectful thing one could do. To respect something or someone does not mean you embrace their dogma or personality as much as it is acknowledging its right to exist. Liberal and conservative people deserve our respect. We don't have to agree with those who's opinions differ from our own, but we can respect their minds enough to know it took some time to come to the state of their own beliefs, time spent thinking is well respected. Time spent thinking about respect is time well spent.
Respect these things; love, family, friends, education, mother earth and father sky. Respect the color of ones skin black, white, red, yellow, and brown. Respect science and the scientist, choice, civil liberties, creativity, art and the artist, music and the musician, literature, journalism, authors, the imagination, humor and the laughter that follows, chocolate, beer, sports, spirituality, the power of prayer, the internet, your immediate 'real' world and you're on respectable path. And let us not forget an amazing blind piano player with his own amazing grace, he deserves our respect. If there was one gift you could give someone aside from the precious gift of love, respect would be the greatest gift. I respect myself more now then I did yesterday, (bathing is such an esteem booster) and I respect you for taking this time to read this.
Respectfully Yours,
Cupie, the second star left of center xoxo
