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Expect Respect

Why associate with people who do not respect you?

Chris Bunton
3 min readOct 27, 2024
Photo by writer. An old train tunnel, on a trail in Southern Illinois.

That’s the question.

Why should we associate or be involved with people who do not respect us?

Why be friends with, or go to a church or be part of a group or organization where you are treated as a second class citizen?

Seriously?

You were created for a purpose. That purpose was not to be treated like you’re nothing by people who claim to love you or like you.

Do they watch you struggling and do nothing to help? They don’t care about you obviously.

Do they claim to love you but do not support your ideas, dreams and business ventures?

Do they “like”, comment and share your stuff on social media? Do they support your work and business?

When you seek to be involved do they ignore you? Do they give you some petty task while supporting their best friends? Aren’t you supposed to be a friend?

All those jokes they pull on you and all the kidding they do to you is not really kidding..is it? Are you the butt of their jokes? What do they say when you are not around?

Do they invite you to do things? Do they make it easy for you to attend?

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Chris Bunton
Chris Bunton

Written by Chris Bunton

A writer, poet and blogger setting brush fires of freedom, spirit, and encouragement. You can also find me on Substack: https://chrisbunton.substack.com/

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