Respect is a little used feeling. In the dictionary it is little explained, diluted with others, and even obedience enters into the analysis of whatever it is. It didn't convince me.
Let's go to the etymology. Taste! It's like visiting the words in the nursery.
Respect; the thing in the chest. It's there because I like it. He also says that it is the act of looking back several times. To have respect, then, would be to look at the person's past, at our own, without judgment, but considering each one's journey.
If we put it all together, it would make a fantastic soup – nutritious soup food!
But, like soup, respect is in disuse. Young people don't like it, children swallow it, old people don't taste it anymore, some have never tried it. The soup and the respect.
Respect is rare; it does not grow like a weed, and if stepped on it is destroyed.
This “thing in the chest” needs to be cherished, nourished, experienced, felt…
But like soup, it looks like grumpy old men.
But respect could be the new religion: respect for life – whatever it is, respect for the ideas – of anyone, ourselves – where everything is born for us. And this religion, like all religions, would require practice, and not on set days. This practice would even take place in solitude.
But… many buts for respect to become established as a practice.
Here, even after Christ, the “an eye for an eye” and the “tooth for a tooth” are still lived, the “those who can cry less”, the “those who don't cry don't breastfeed”.
We are still in the biological realm.
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In car traffic, he disappears.
In human clusters, he is transfigured, just like human faces.
Can everything!
There is no reverence for the Sacred, for Wisdom, for Experience.
For the oldest, the youngest, the weakest, the least favored, respect has no place.
The “thing in the chest” sounds like a child’s song, “it was glass and it broke”.
