To Be Heard...a Note About Respect

To Be Heard...a Note About Respect

Mar 22, 2021

Its so crazy to be heard, I think so much of our torture as human being is NOT being heard.

-Billie Eilish

I love this quote from Billie Eilish. She has been having such an incredible journey into being heard, into basically being an overnight sensation. I can't help but admire that she is so often resonant, and I'm not even in her demographic.

Imagine having a platform as huge as Billie Eilish. There would be pressures too abundant to name, people who don't listen at all and people who listen and take things too far or entirely out of context. There would be judgment, nothing would ever be good enough and people who hate these days are very vocal, even violent, about it. All this happened to her at only 18 if I recall correctly. In the climate of current culture, where throwing people away like garbage if their socks don't match, or "cancelling," is the norm, the pressure must be nearly debilitating at times.

It isn't about liking her music or not liking it. It isn't even about liking how she dresses or what shade of green her hair is either. It's more the fact that she recognizes the torture of not being heard, it denotes a certain wisdom and resonance with so many people these days who don't feel heard or like they matter.

The pressures of current culture mean she and her counterparts have to be that much more careful, seeing that some of them recognize the responsibility in that really toasts my icy little heart. So many people line up to pick on millennials without giving them a chance. They judge millies for being judgmental, does anyone else see the problem here? A lot of the complaints the generations have against one another are like that. Yet here's evidence that maybe these millennials are way more on the ball than people give them credit for.

Have you been nice to a millennial today? Remember, they'll be the ones deciding which home you're going to go live in when you're an elder. I for one would like to be respected by younger generations when I'm an elder. Hopefully also wise enough to realize that to be respected, it helps to be respectable. To that end, I will respectfully decline from thinking millennials are anything less than amazing.

I know we are trained from birth to respect our elders, I never have. If I'm being honest, it's not entirely my fault, I just wasn't around very many respectable adults. They didn't respect the kids, they didn't respect each other and they didn't respect themselves. I learned so much from them about my own self worth that I will be forever grateful to them.

It seems an easy enough thing to do, treat one another with respect. What needs some patching up in current culture is the fact that the amount of people who don't respect themselves or think they are worthy of respect is ever growing. Here's the thing, the person that decides that is you. Figure out your own worth and you'll not only practice self respect but you'll stop giving out discounts.

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