Julia and Abby were friends. Julia noticed that Abby's stuff was always out of order, and tore up. Abby also noticed that her friend wasn't even kind od nice to people she didn't agree with. She didn't have the decency to respect their opinion. Abby saw later that Julia didn't even respect herself. The ways hse talked about herself, the way she dressed, and the way she treated herself and her things were all very good clues to Abby that her friend didn't have respect.
Do you understand? It's not hard to walk up to a large group of people, and sort to which ones respect themselves, and which ones don't. Respecting others takes a little more time, but you get the gist. Don't be one of the people who doesn't respect anything. It will pay off in the end.
Respect doesn't take much, but it does take you having enough decency to let other people think what they want, and you don't try to change their opinion. Really, respecting others starts with you respecting yourself. If you treat yourself like you want other people to treat you, then you can "[treat] your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 19:19)
Respecting and being kind are basically the same thing. This song by Tim McGraw talks about being kind, and altogether a good person. Check it out
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