Just Because you can spell it doesn't mean you'll get it.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

How many human beings can you name who respect you? Tough question because "Respect" has such a flexible definition. And circumstances impact on how it's defined and people's understanding of each situation vary.

This is a formula situation in movies: A husband and wife are at a party. There is a bombshell of a woman there who has the eyes of most of the men present riveted on her ample bosom as displayed by a plunging décolletage. They're all thinking of something they'd like to get plunging. So then one brave (read 'idiot') husband finds himself talking to the stunning beauty. His wife walks up and tries to talk to him, something about her water just broke, but he's not listening. When she finally gets her point across to her, he suggests she get a cab because Tiffanie's garbage disposal hasn't been working properly and he's going to stop by her place to see what he can do with it...

Years later they make look back and laugh about the event, but at the moment it was happening, the pregnant wife was feeling an absence of the respect she felt entitled to. His take may have been simply, "hey, we've got two other kids, so it's not like this is anything new here, and my gawd, look at that rack!" I'm not saying it's a valid point of view, because it isn't. I'm just saying that at times we all get a little wacky.

A little far-fetched? Okay, maybe a little, but you get my point. There are people in this world for whom you have done things but who will never respect you. But it's okay, because you're shorting some very deserving people yourself. It's a bumpy merry-go-round we're all on.

Barbarians take matters into their own hands, by which I mean they take what they want, when they want it. This is not conducive to frictionless inter-personal relations. Our way, the way of 'please' and 'thank you,' is far superior when we examine what it is to be born, to live and then to die.

So it boils down to this: I'll respect you in the morning.