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Definition Essay On Respect

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When I was a little kid, about 8 to 9 years of age, I usually believed on anything a person said. Specifically the time when one of my classmates said “I’ll give back your pencil at the end of class.” That’s where trust comes in: a substantial belief in one’s loyalty, truth, or ability. In fact, he never gave it back which saddens me because the pencil he kept was actually my favorite one. It’s understandable that a pencil is cheap and easily replaceable, but that doesn’t give anyone the right to keep it without the owner’s consent.
From my perspective, trust is like a vase, a nice well-decorated artifact, that is highly fragile and easy to break. Once it is destroyed it can be fixed, maybe by using tape or super glue, but the vase will never …show more content…

Be courteous: that’s what respect is. Respect is also what brings people together, like a relationship or a friendship of some sort. If not used it can also tear people apart. There is another form of respect too, and that is respect for one’s property. Ever heard of the term “vandalism”? That term means: action involving destruction of or damage to private or public property. This includes anything from writing on a desk at school to stealing from 7-Eleven. It is a form of disrespect and crime. Property, whether a friend’s, the school’s, or even a stranger’s, should always be respected. Even if you smash a bottle on the side-walk. Be thoughtful and respect others, and you’ll get that respect back. So what does respect truly mean to me? Respect for me is a form of loving and admiring something or someone. It means so much that it makes me open up more about my ideas on improving somethings in life, without getting rudely interrupted or persecuted. Again with the friendship thing, it is the reason why I have the friends that I think highly of today. Because we hand out and obtain respect from one another, as a result, formed the our

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