To Be Polite

Politeness goes along way. You can be many things, but politeness will not only make you a better person, it makes a better person out of people. If the importance of politeness was to be measured it would first be godliness, cleanliness, and then politeness as the old saying would go.

Usually when you treat others with kindness or a smile, they usually respond in kind. Even the most frowny of faces smile back when you smile. When people are polite, others respond, sometimes starting a chain reaction.

However, this does not always happen. Furthermore, some people will still be rude. Nevertheless, this does not mean that you stop being polite. In fact, a good rule, when others are ruder, be more politer. If they’re not being polite from the start, being less polite is not going to make them any more polite.

It needs to be emphasized, that it is not because others are nice or wonderful that people deserve politeness. You can be polite to the worse of people. If you were a prison guard to the worst prison in the world, being polite is something you should still practice at work.

It doesn’t matter who you are being polite to, because it's not really necessarily for them, but for yourself. It’s something to be proud of that you are polite. Furthermore, when they are rude, and you are polite, it means that you are changing them, and not the other way. If what they say can make you impolite, it mean that they are controlling you.

The beauty with politeness is that you can get away with a lot of things. People will generally like you better, and won’t mind what you do when you are polite. Being polite will not solve all your problems, but it will solve some, and it teaches you to be upright. Inner strength. If you have that you can go far.

Needless to say politeness, is invaluable. It doesn’t matter if the whole world is rude and you are polite. Politeness is more for you than it is for others.