Funny Holidays - World Respect Day

Recognition of individual merits and respectful attitude towards another person is one of the signs of education. Respect as a “code of honor” is the moral duty of any member of society. Each of us has our own understanding of what is good or bad in relationships with people around us. Lack of respect for a family member, friend or relative clearly harms their personality and destroys relationships. The ability to accept and understand without judgment the actions of other people, their behavior and statements must and can be cultivated in oneself. Respect is very important at any age. A mother who behaves rudely with her child deprives him of support and help, lowers his self-esteem, and undermines the child’s faith in the goodness and justice of the world around him. Respect is one of the rules of ethics, which presupposes the equality of rights of all members of society, the attention and interest of some people in the feelings and beliefs of others. A respectful attitude towards one's neighbor is the only correct position of a person in relation to the spiritual values ​​of others. The initiators of the unusual celebration, World Respect Day, which is celebrated on March 15, are sure of this. The holiday encourages people to begin to take into account personal boundaries and the interests of others, regardless of the degree of kinship and close relationships. Respect is manifested in recognizing the individuality of a person, interacting with him without causing psychological and physical violence. Respect and relationships with reverence help maintain harmony in society and protect people from conflicts and misunderstandings that exhaust the soul and nerves. This is what the holiday celebrated annually in mid-March calls for. The philosopher I. Kant tried to explain to Europeans and find an analogue in other languages ​​for the concept of “conscience”. The correspondence of foreign words with such a meaning is purely formal, because they do not convey the full depth and meaning that the Eastern Slavs have in it. Russians, unlike other peoples, have long lived according to their conscience. The behavior of Europeans is dominated by reason and intellect. Russian people in their lives are guided by conscience, based on the direct knowledge of truths that do not need logical proof. But the word “respect,” as some researchers believe, was absent in the Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian languages. It was borrowed from Europeans. Linguist L.G. Sverdlov claims that the noun “respect” appeared in the Russian literary language in the 40s and 50s of the 18th century. In German there is wage ("important"), in Polish there is uwazny ("to be attentive"). The cognate word waga (“weight”) further reveals the meaning of the concept. A respected person with a worthy reputation and respect is said to “have weight in society.” There is another theory of the origin of the word. “Respect” appeared in Russian as a derivative of “important”. Respectful attitude means the ability to consider the interests of another person and do what is important to another. The lexical dictionary gives the following meaning of the colloquial and outdated “respect”: “Take into account, agree to something, recognizing it as convincing, worthy of attention.” Russian people have always tried to act according to their conscience, take into account the desires and opinions of others, and treat old people who have lived a long life and had experience with honor. Respect for the freedom of choice of another person and the desire to understand him is absorbed with mother's milk. Conscience as a manifestation of moral self-control, awareness of the value of the individual and respectful attitude towards its interests are qualities that distinguish Russians from other peoples. Therefore, the initiative to celebrate World Respect Day in the Russian Federation found support and a wide response in the hearts of people.