It’s been a while since I’m in a different continent, surrounded by diverse people and I must admit that I miss my home more than I ever imagined. There’s no place like home, that’s for sure.
Posting on Facebook or communicating on Whatsapp has created a larger gap since I last wrote on my blog. Writing is the only way I can think of that we have to express ourselves without being interrupted. It’s almost writing to ourselves but hoping that all unwanted thoughts or expressions get recycled at some point for something better.
Today, I’ve come across many woman. All humiliated in some form. Nowadays, with the exception of being glued to the phone whilst in someone else’s company (because let us remember this is considered as socially-accepted impoliteness), common courtesy habits are lost. Perhaps this is cultural.
‘Please’, ‘Thank you’, ‘After you’ are seldom heard. It’s hard to not let these things affect our ways of thinking as they determine our perception of how people are.
Thankfully, there are exceptions and sometimes a smile or an expression are just enough.
Manners are easily lost. In fact, when we love a person (this might even be a parent or family member), habits become tolerant. More often than not, the rules are bent or totally broken.
A wise man told me today: ‘A man may have been born to become a man, but they must desire to be a gentleman…’
Amusingly, I found other rules that he mentioned. Some of which are below:
Rule no. 10: Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.
Rule no. 240: If you aren’t treating her right, don’t be mad when somebody else does.
Rule no. 346: Don’t ever make a lady cry.(I guess there’s an exception: Rule no.400)
Rule no. 9: Never force her to do anything.
Rule no. 416: Never, ever compare a girl to another girl.
Rule no. 400: The only tears you should make her cry are tears of joy.
Rule no. 424: A man who is ashamed of his lady and hides her does not deserve her.
Rule no. 452: A gentleman never ever leaves his lady in doubt.
Rule no. 469: Keep your word if you want to keep her.
Some of my favorites:
More here…
Men, after you please:
Savita 