I've had to answer, many times, why I may not like a particular person; I've even been asked by the particular person I seemingly haven't liked. I have always answered, it isn't that I don't like them, it's because they seem to care very little that I have no respect for them. Hell, I can like you, or I can love you, and have little or no respect for you. For that matter, I can also love you and not like you very much, at all. Being liked, to my mind, is all about being yourself and not trying to impress someone by being who you're not. The problem with being someone you're not is that most people are transparent, and the people who think they aren't transparent are usually the most transparent of all. The people who can pull off being someone they're not are usually undercover agents or in the "confidence" game subculture of criminal society; either of them are simply con men, and they will earn your respect without you realizing who they really are.
To read more of my humble offering concerning “respect,” please follow the attached link to my blog, “The Path”: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
