when respect is worthless

all of us know that, we work hard, do good, to earn respect from others,
to earn respect as who we are from what we do,
to earn respect from others that they’re aware of your feeling, your thought, etc….

so, when do we stop?
and when will our ‘desired’ respect become worthless one day??
and just when the ‘respect’ given to us doesn’t carry any weight, or doesn’t have any meaning in there??
i guess, it’s when we don’t work for it…
such work has to be continuous,
till we get old, till we die…

however, sometimes we’re lacking of such awareness
and we tend to get lazy…
that’s when we, as human being, ie. most of the time, ‘corrupted’ human beings…
when we get some titles, or when we’re somebody…
therefore, we expect RESPECT from others, just by not doing anything…

how will my kids respect me as their mother, if I sit there, do nothing… not even a simple task for them??
and how will my siblings respect me, if I do not behave like one of them??
or, how will a supervisor gain respect from their subordinate when what they know is only yelling and pushing responsility??
or, even as a kid, how will you earn respect if you’re not doing what a kid’s supposed to do?? (ie. studying, learning, and maturing..)

but… I guess, sometimes, most of us fall trap to this type of situation,
we simply expect others to give us DAMN BLOODY RESPECT
just by being somebody
while our behaviour, words, and thoughts are full of selfishness, full of hurtful/negative elements to others??
or even better, sometimes, without words, our body language shows out every single evil and corrupted facts in us…
we take it for granted – just because we’re somebody, we say hurtful words, or bad things about others, and that, we’ll be DAMN BLOODY EXCUSED!!??? (huh??)
or, we take it for granted – just because we’re somebody, we simply will ‘earn’ the DAMN BLOODY RESPECT!!

i guess, we just don’t, and we shouldn’t…
however, one day… one fine day… we may just forget
and simply expecting RESPECT from others, by not doing anything…
or worse still, we do bad things, say bad words, and expect the RESPECT.. simply just because we thought we’re somebody, or somebody’s somebody.. right??

SO, JUST TELL ME, WHY SHOULD I RESPECT YOU??