DAILY COURTESY

 DAILY COURTESY

Daily life for everyone involves interaction with the people someone knows and also those unknown to us. A rare breed of people are people identified by all who encounter them as one of behaviour and character. Some people are sufferers of Multiple personality disorder and are known to different groups of people differently. Everytime that I noticed myself to be having more than one characters to different people, I always tried hard to reconcile my 2 or more selves into one so that am the same person to all people. Have you ever tried to heap praises to a person somewhere and someone stood on a point of correction to give you their negative experience about that person? Like saying how honest and trustworthy a person is, then someone tells you how that very person refused to pay back what is owed to them? It shocks you at first before you discover that your person was after all not that honest. The gospel of christ is a tool for total transformation of a person's character and way of life. Even so works out other religions and the dictates of good humanity. That is why it feels good to visit families whose kids are trained on simple courtesy of welcome, thank you, sorry and how can I be of help? Training our kids in our ways of brash brutal and trumping upon all who sit on our way is a destruction of our future generations. More so should we always check on our behaviour to improve on where we are not doing very well. And just to re-teach ourselves. Say thank you when something good is done for you...whether you are paying for it or not. Keep your word to the best of your ability and excuse yourself incase you fall short of it. Keep your end of bargain in contracts including gentleman agreements. Say sorry when you have wronged someone. It is uncouth just to go mute knowing well that you wronged that person. Give someone way on the road even when in a hurry. Don't be like brother Njenga, a friend of mine who used to give me lift and would go abusing other road users, justifying inapropriate language and rushing to make it for mid-week fellowship. It is so easy to hold the door for someone coming behind you or pulling the seat for the other person in a restaurant. Let us not be too transactional so that you don't care because you think you may not meet or need that person again. Let every interaction be relational so you have no issue meeting that person again or their referals. I guess it may be much profitable for business people. The golden rule, Matthew 7:12 guides well, 'do unto others what you would have them do to you, Titus 3:2 tells us to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone. Please choose to be courteous everyday. Won't we?

@Stephen Mungai