Respecting each other today is hard. We compromise on it. We don’t earn it most of the times. We definitely do not ask someone to earn it.  We settle often, risk it all, tempted to have something over nothing. This can apply to friendships or relationships. I have seen it happen to people and I have been through it myself.

I have never demanded respect, I expect it though and it is a silent agreement that if I respect you, you respect me. Recently, I went through something that shocked me and made me think deeply of my choices when it comes to who I trust and give my time to.

Losing someone is never fun.  Losing someone because they can’t see their fault is even worse because all you want to do is shake them and make them realize through your attempt of telepathy prompting them (which always fails). But you have realize that it’s time to walk away and not worth your self-respect. Ever. It’s hard but never put yourself in the dump for someone who has crossed the line or disrespected you.

There are the kind of people who are so kind-hearted and so into being the bigger person that this kind of scenarios kill a part of their heart. I am one of them. It’s hard to let go and it’s harder to believe this happened to you because you would never do that to someone. You get taken advantage of plenty and never give up or become a cold-hearted person but you should know when you NEED to walk away.

We all cross lines, test tolerance and limits. We want to bare it all but at the same time wear a shield. We want to know how far we can go into hurting someone where the person doesn’t leave you. We like to control and manipulate and own someone because we never want to be alone but in that you can hurt someone, badly and lose them forever.

There is a thin line between respecting someone and disrespecting someone, which is so easy to cross. It gets difficult to get back when crossed. It destroys the trust, love, and unity between two people forever.

Indian Chameleon’s Obiter Dictum for the Day
Respect everyone, it is not a choice you make, it is a right.