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8.10 独立 Some people say we should never be impolite to another person. Do you agree or disagree?
What will you do when you meet a person at a first time? Of course, be polite, since no one will blame a person who is polite to others. However, if you get into a trouble that someone is yelling you even is rude to you, will you keep polite? In such a case, answers may be various. While someone may think that polite at this is a proof of cowardice and it is nothing useful to deal with the problems, others may think being polite is always a rule that we should obey and it may help us to solve the trouble. As for me, I agree with the latter.
There is no doubt that being polite to other people is always beneficial for both you and others since it is human nature that people are inclined to do good to others if others do good to them. As an old saying goes, “courtesy costs nothing.” It means that people are willing to get together with those people who are polite to them. We can also know this from some examples in our daily life. Tom, one of my friends, is often polite to others, whoever it is. Once he went for an interview to compete a fiercely competitive position. When he came to the washroom before the interview, he was polite to the man who was cleaning there. After the interview, he received the offer very soon. Afterwards he happened to know that day in washroom, the interviewer was also there and it was his politeness that make the interviewer decided to hire him so soon. From this we can know that being polite all the time may give you some surprises.
When it comes to the situation that someone is rude to you, being impolite is not a good response since it may lead to worse situation. Take one of my relatives, Aaron, as an example. When he firstly drove in a street, he hit the car in front and he originally wanted to apologize to the driver of the car in front. However, since the drive scolded him heavily, Aaron was impolite to the driver, saying it was not a big deal. Thus the driver was more angry and finally they were asked to police station to solve the problem. As a matter of fact, everything has a reason, if we think more about reasons of others’ behaviors and be polite to response, problems must be easier to solved. Such as the case above, if Aaron thought about reasons why the driver was so angry, and being polite to the driver, would the drive keep reproving him? They could have not solved the problem in the police station.
I concede that sometimes we cannot control ourselves especially when someone reaches our limits. For example, a wife abuses her husband’s mother when she argues with her husband who admires his mom very much just for something trifling of everyday life. Under such a circumstance, the husband may be hard to control himself to not be rude to his wife. However, can being impolite solve the problem? Of course not. What a better solution should be to tell his wife not to abuse his mom again and explain the reasons, namely, being polite.
In conclusion, whatever the situation is, compared to be impolite to another person, being polite can always be more beneficial for us. |
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