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The Importance Of Respect

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What is respect? Is the way people should be treated, how you would want to be treated, and should it come naturally or should it be taught? Respect is what are world is built on, I feel that the phrases like “reap what you sow” explain what respect works like. For example to when I am rude to someone they tend to be rude back, the same works with respect. When being disrespectful to someone you most likely will disrespect you right back. Not everyone follows these thoughts of respect. Actions like these can lead to dangerous places, people begin to break boundaries that were once built on respect.
In other cases respect is earned, and not given. What I mean by this is that, sometimes people must gain the respect of others. This can be earned in many ways, like being respectful of others, being the best you can be, and doing kind things for others. This respect can cause people to look up and follow in example of someone, and eventually making you an example for others to follow and look up to, on so on and so forth.
Respect can also be lost very easily, doing things that can discourage people who look up to you as an example. Losing this respect could make you untrustworthy and cause people to become unfaithful in you. This could also make you a bad example, people respecting you for the wrong reasons. Wrong interpretations of of people who respect your bad examples can cause people to do things they think is good thing to do.
I do my best to respect others, even

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