The Art of Social Integration: Part One: Respect

Log start: 12:35am 5/30/11

Today as my friends and I were walking out of a Ruby Tuesdays on Long Beach, LI, at about 11pm, a 4x4 with 3 white kids drove by us and called us tools.

Now, I understand that Asians look like funny people to Caucasians and that we are all different, but there is no need to do a driveby calling us names. Especially when there were 11 of us.

Inside the restaurants, we engaged in constructive conversation involving politics, religion, everyday life, and making jokes to lighten up the atmosphere. Our waitress was the best waitress we ever had, we all learned something, and it was one of the rare times (that i find) that it was a serious conversation about serious topics in the world.

Now, I do not claim that we are scholars that know everything, we know that it is quite the opposite but if all of us ever learned one thing, it is that you must give respect to get respect. It is not given to you and if you choose to be dicks, do not complain when the world starts being a dick to you.

This leads to my own personal views of respect where my sub-concious sort of does this weird thing and I don't realize it until some time after. At times I feel as if my sub-concious is stronger than my concious mind, and i can see how that happens...
My sub-concious automatically places people that I meet in groups of people that I automatically show respect for and people that I don't necessarily care for as much. At times I treat certain people one way and others differently and it doesn't strike me until I really think about what I did.
I'm tired right now so i'll make the long story short and have the simple version up whenever I feel like it... (procrastinating already...)

If you're a dick, be expected to be dicked back.

Wish I could put it in a better phrasing, but this was the only way I found it to be comprehensible at this time. I have the ability to not judge people at soon as I meet them. I am more of a mirror. What you see is what you really are.



To be continued...

-HakoneDayDreamer