Yesterday during our training for Level 2, we had an assignment given by Boss Al, our manager which co – trains us, wherein we had to list down the good and bad things of our product specific trainer, Gerard and of course, Boss Al. In that instant, I thought this would be easy, but it’s not.
So I did the assignment when I got home. It was pretty easy for me to wrote down all the good things to both of them because I consider them as one of the best people on the floor, but when the bad thing came to me, I was really running out of ideas. Questions popped up, “Are they mean to me?” or the like.
Time of discussion came and all of us are really filling out the good things for Boss Ge, but when we were now tasked to mention the bad things about Boss Al (he was the trainer by the way on that time), we were really having a hard time. Some gave them but on a positive note and more on a witty sense. Boss Al asked us why are we having a hard time with it? and then, he explained because of the magical and powerful word RESPECT. That there are two kinds of which, Utmost Respect and Due Respect (What you give is what you will receive)
If that is the case and if that is what how the world defines respect. Utmost respect to everyone is what I do to everyone, or at least almost everyone. I mean, I don’t have anything to be proud of, and when I have one, I see to it that I really worked hard for it. If that is also the case for respect, why do some people, it’s easy for them to point out and enumerate the bad ones instead of appreciating the good ones that you did or you possess?
There’s another case for friends, they list down the bad things, yes and we take that objectively right? Because all they aim is for you to change and improve if there’s any that we badly need. If that is the case, why do some friendships don’t work that way and instead all the bad ones are being overlapped by the good ones that you did? and the worst, we are not being appreciated if we did something that we know they can be proud of?
For some friendships, is it a way for your continuous improvement or a in-your-face way of what you have to change and slowly becoming a pressure until you suffocates?
When do we say that respect begets respect if we still respect the person, or our friend, regardless?