respect

please, do take note that i write this out of honesty and do not intend to hurt or offend anyone in any particular manner. if i end up doing so after you read this, please know that i am sorry for having offended you. thank you.

'they' say that in order to gain respect, you have to let your reputation be known. what 'they' dont know is that you gain your reputation by your means of showing respect.

i'm sorry to say it, but many people pass judgement based on one's appearance. if you wear proclubs and AAAs, then you're a gangster or thug or a trying-hardcore-wanna be. if you wear hollister or ambercrombie, you're a baller. if you wear pins and mix and match, you're either emo, a rocker, or trying to be one of them. its just how it is now days..

hopefully, you noticed how i didnt talk about respect in there. i believe respect is not shown by what you wear, but how you act. i know its not my job or responsibility to judge others, but sometimes i cant help but doing so. but i do not base the judgments i make upon people on they way they dress, but on how they act in places like church and school, and how much respect they show towards other people.

kids my age were being kinda rude and were disturbing during the Eucharistic Celebration for John Paul II [may he rest in peace]. they were hardly showing respect towards the presider [Bishop Salazar] nor the choir members and ushers. it made me want to yell at them because i thought 'if they're not showing respect, why should i respect them?' but then i realized that they would think the same of me if i said something towards them. i respected them and how they didnt know much about mass yet to appreciate it as much as i do and let them be.

was it right for me to do that? who knows.. but i hope one day that at least one of them read this entry to realize that if one wants respect, you gotta show it.