Rudeness/politeness
A child, when beaten enough times, would eventually correct his actions, under the correct guidance.
This is because they are not yet 'fixed'. They will learn, because they have the capacity to do so. They are not yet 'filled'.
What about a teenager? A teenager, who was never beaten, never corrected, never received any guidance?
Would he, or she, be able to be corrected, now? Or has the years of wild, uncontrolled mentality left an imprint too deep to erase?
What would happen, then, when they are forced to change? Would they change accordingly? Would they break? Or would they simply put on a mask of pretense?
Recently, I've been told several times, by several different people from different parts of my life, that I am rude.
The question I've been asking myself is, what defines polite? Is there a clearly
drawn line, somewhere, that separates 'politeness' and 'rudeness'?
I've never been taught how, specifically, to be polite. Or maybe I don't remember being taught how. Because it wasn't significant, wasn't detailed enough to make me think it was important.
If I was taught 'politeness' now, I would like to think that I would simply don it like a mask. Because my thoughts are not 'polite'. It has not been since I have had reached some sense of maturity. But that is contradictory. I am not mature. I don't think I am. My thoughts are irrational, uncontrolled, and because there is no barrier between my thoughts and my actions; it was not 'installed' into me, my actions, my speech, directly reflects my 'rude' thoughts.
So maybe politeness is that barrier between thoughts and actions. It blocks, fliters, transform our thoughts, before they become our actions, our speech.
This is because they are not yet 'fixed'. They will learn, because they have the capacity to do so. They are not yet 'filled'.
What about a teenager? A teenager, who was never beaten, never corrected, never received any guidance?
Would he, or she, be able to be corrected, now? Or has the years of wild, uncontrolled mentality left an imprint too deep to erase?
What would happen, then, when they are forced to change? Would they change accordingly? Would they break? Or would they simply put on a mask of pretense?
Recently, I've been told several times, by several different people from different parts of my life, that I am rude.
The question I've been asking myself is, what defines polite? Is there a clearly
drawn line, somewhere, that separates 'politeness' and 'rudeness'?
I've never been taught how, specifically, to be polite. Or maybe I don't remember being taught how. Because it wasn't significant, wasn't detailed enough to make me think it was important.
If I was taught 'politeness' now, I would like to think that I would simply don it like a mask. Because my thoughts are not 'polite'. It has not been since I have had reached some sense of maturity. But that is contradictory. I am not mature. I don't think I am. My thoughts are irrational, uncontrolled, and because there is no barrier between my thoughts and my actions; it was not 'installed' into me, my actions, my speech, directly reflects my 'rude' thoughts.
So maybe politeness is that barrier between thoughts and actions. It blocks, fliters, transform our thoughts, before they become our actions, our speech.