Importance Of Respect Essay

Where Has Respect Gone The words “thank you” and “you’re welcome” seem to have been misplaced somewhere within the past years. Every week I go to my local Starbucks to enjoy a nice tea while I work on homework and study. While doing my work I cannot help but glance at a group of teens who enter the shop. One by one each of them order a drink, and as they pick up their drink I pay close attention to see if any drink may be worth trying on my next visit. After watching them receive their drinks I am disgusted, but not by the drinks themselves. Here is where the problem persists; when handed their drink not a single one of these teenagers gave a simple thank you. I stand by as seven teens grab their drinks and dart out as if the barista did not put time and effort into making their drink. When the group of teens leave the restaurant the door is opened for them by a middle aged man, and to my surprise no thank you was given again. Enraged by what I had just seen it drove me to question if common courtesy, and respect have skipped a generation. I can safely say that youth does not show elders the respect that was once present. The lack of respect within teens and young adults must start from nowhere else then directly inside the home itself. If a child has lack of discipline and respect for his own household
As a teen my friends and I would bully other kids just for everyone to think we were better than everyone else. Although I was raised in a household where disrespect was not tolerate the media portrayed an image that I wanted to have which went against everything that my parents taught me about showing respect towards others. The obsession to have a chip on my shoulder when really that wasn’t the case caused me to be the person I now despise, so when I look at kids now and see a replay of my past I often feel bad for the hold the media has on