I am restless and it isn’t from the overload of schoolwork that professors are piling on or the fact that I have something going on almost every second of the day.

It is the mere fact that I am tired of there being a lack of respect by people.

By all means, I am not saying that no one is respectful or that respect has completely been lost, but I feel like it is becoming more and more absent from people’s lives, including mine. I just don’t understand where it was lost and how come we don’t practice this a little more often.

In college life, students don’t always have their own room or space to call their own, so the fact that they have to share things in a dorm or in a greek house is a tough equation for some students to figure out.

Roommates are not always compatible and it can become a bigger problem for both of them when the respect leaves.

People can be petty about situations and gossip about it to other friends or make the situation completely worse than it needs to be; where is the respect?

It can be hard living around so many people all the time.

People will be loud when you want them to be quiet, people will play music when you are trying to sleep or they will walk into your room without knocking on the door.

It comes down to the fact that people are caught up within their own bubble and they forget the manners of living with others.

This isn’t a rant about just living problems, but problems like being cut off on the road, a waitress being rude or even someone not saying hi when they pass you.

If everyone thought about showing more respect, our world might be a little nicer.

It goes back to the golden rule, “treat others how you want to be treated.”

So, treat people with respect because in return you gain respect back.

Respect is a chain reaction. If one person doesn’t get respect, then the next person will not show it, and it keeps going on and on.

I am not asking for a perfect world, because that is impossible, but I am asking for others to consider people’s feelings and show a little more respect in the sense that each of us deserves it and wants it.