WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT EXERCISING COMMON COURTESY & COMPASSION? - HERE'S WHAT

WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S SO SPECIAL  ABOUT EXERCISING COMMON COURTESY & COMPASSION?  - HERE'S WHAT

Compassion,being sympathetic & feeling sorrow for someone else's misfortune, a person's misfortune to whom you are not indebted in any way. Yes, common courtesy matters and compassion is important.
Here's what's so special about it, in this very litigious world where all of us want to prove our rightness even to the detriment of those with whom we disagree, common courtesy and compassion are not enforceable! No one is compelled to be compassionate and exercise common courtesy. It is completely voluntary and emanates from deep within a person's being, that's why it's so special.
Justice, equality and fairness on the other hand are principles both virtuous and totally enforceable, binding even to those who would not subscribe to them in their thinking.
Contrary to some schools of thought that being compassionate is a sign of weakness , it is actually a show of great strength for someone to willingly and voluntarily go out of their way in order to alleviate the suffering of another or ease their burden at least. It is being heroic and brave. Come to think of it, even the fictitious superheroes with unlimited power use their strength out of compassion and common courtesy to save the world by standing up for the helpless.
A steely, stone-faced "macho" emotionless approach to life be it professional or social, supposedly portraying strength and power is a facade with undertones of brittleness which presents hardness yet shatters and breaks easily.
We become compassionate by choice, the external rewards and appreciation are not guaranteed, however the more we exercise common courtesy we get inner fulfillment and feelings of wholeness and being our greater selves.
In business as leaders and managers, genuine common courtesy is the path of least resistance to getting the cooperation of those through whom we work. Everyone wants to be respected and treated with dignity, once this is established trust is built and cooperation follows. The beauty of this is that the subordinates are even willing to voluntarily go the extra mile for the courteous leader and would never do the same through coercion and arrogant dictatorial methods.
It is important to realise that our titles do not define us but our nature does and that is our common denominator, the janitor and the CEO are the same, when stripped to the core they are both human beings and that is where we would be best placed to start when conferring respect and dignity on other people.  Exercising common courtesy to all and being alive to the situations of those around us makes the world a better place.
 Arrogance and taking other people for granted is toxic and cancerous, if we choose to behave that way, we can only revel in it for a while, eventually it catches up with us and the damage to our inner self proves worse than to those whom we subjected our behaviour.
To say please when we ask, thank you when someone does something for us, sorry when we see someone hurting or when we are in the wrong even in the little daily situations brightens the other person's day which comes preloaded with tasks and challenges to be overcome.
It is okay to be courteous and compassionate to others, at some point we all find ourselves needing it from another person no matter who we are and there is no telling when that moment comes for us or other people so it's best to try and do it all the time.
You never know how many hearts you can touch and heal in a lifetime just by common courtesy and compassion - try it, it works!

THE GOLDEN WORD FOUNTAIN - (TGWF)