“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love”. This has worked for my relationships in so many beautiful ways. Friends have turned family and strangers had turned great friends.
Nothing can take the place of politeness in human relationships, regardless of whether it’s formal or informal. It is a "need to do" many had overlooked and underestimated yet very useful.
By nature or nurture, I am a chat/text person than a call person. I prefer that medium of communication than a call except if need be. Oftentimes, I hear people show courtesy by asking me, if they can call me before putting a call across to me, even without knowing this nature of mine. This single gesture makes me go outside of myself to pick their calls regardless of my state of being.
Other times, when people who are entitled to some benefits from me and yet such people still act and talk as though it’s a privilege, it makes me go all out for them more than what I am obliged to do for them.
Sometimes many of us are tempted to do this; someone you haven't reached out to in months, you suddenly call the person up for help. Courtesy demands that you first call to greet the person, show some rapport, and ask for your help some other day, so as not to make the person feel like an instrument than a person.
These and many more are what reduces the quality of our relationship when in an actual sense will cost us nothing to do. When courtesy is in place, humans have lesser stress.
For to be tender, kind, polite, compassionate, understanding towards another is for our benefit, it’s like watering the ground that we alone would walk on.
#PowerOfCourtesy
#RelationshipBoosters
#AllDoorsOpenToCourtesy
#CourtesyCostNothingButBuysEverything
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