I once heard such a story:

When businessmen saw a pencil salesman in rags, they suddenly felt pity. Without thinking, he stuffed 10 yuan into the pencil seller's hand and walked away without looking back. After a few steps, he suddenly felt that it was wrong to do so, so he quickly returned and apologized that he had forgotten to take the pen. I hope you don't mind. Finally, he said solemnly, "You are both businessmen like me."

A year later, in a warm and grand social occasion, a salesman in a suit and tie met the businessman and introduced himself gratefully: "You may have forgotten me long ago, and I don't know your name, but I will never forget you. You made me regain my self-esteem and self-confidence. I always thought I was a beggar selling pencils until you told me yourself that I was a businessman like you. "

I didn't expect such a simple business statement to make a person who is not without inferiority suddenly build up his self-esteem and make a person in trouble regain his self-confidence. It is with this self-esteem and self-confidence that he saw his own value and advantages and finally succeeded through hard work. It is not difficult to imagine that if there were no such words of respect and encouragement at the beginning, even giving him several thousand yuan would not help, and there would never be a huge change from self-admission to self-confidence. This is respect, and this is the power of respect!

Respect is a kind of cultivation, a kind of character, an equal treatment of others, and a full affirmation of others' personality and value. No one can be perfect. We have no reason to judge others with lofty eyes, and we are not qualified to laugh at others with indifferent eyes. If others are inferior to ourselves in some ways, we can't hurt others' self-esteem with arrogance and disrespect; If we are inferior to others in some places, we don't have to replace our due respect with inferiority or jealousy. A person who truly knows how to respect others is bound to face the strong and weak in all undertakings, all the luck and misfortune in life with an equal attitude, a normal heart and a calm mood.

Respect is a spring breeze, a clear spring, a warm sleeping pill and an inspiring tonic. It often complements sincerity, humility, tolerance, appreciation, kindness and friendliness, and is incompatible with hypocrisy, arrogance, harshness, ridicule, malice and snobbery. Give respect to successful people and show admiration, praise and pursuit of others' success; Giving respect to those who fail is sympathy, comfort and encouragement to others after their failure. As long as there is respect, there is true feelings in the world, and there is hope in the future. After success, there will be continuous progress, and after failure, there will be a comeback.

Respect is not blind worship, nor disgusting flattery; It is not unprincipled humility, nor is it condescending without self-esteem. Knowing the importance of respecting others does not mean learning how to respect others. In this sense, respect is also a science. When you learn to respect others, you learn to respect yourself, and you also learn and master a major meaning of life.

Let's savor and explore slowly on the road of life!