Arise & shine, for a new dawn has come. I can understand the feeling of laziness pulling you down like a magnetic force as you try to lift your heavy head up from that warm, soft & comfy pillow. The weekend is upon us yet again as is now being pointed out to me that Thursday is the new Friday. How we relish the jolly moments of self indulgence, pinting away to our merry ways & taking up whatever jolt of adrenaline we can acquire.
However with the current cold weather the only actvities of indulgence will be within the confines of our homes or as most will refer to as our places of refuge. Anyway let us now look into the realities of life. How many of you know about the four wheels of mannerism? Anyone? No one? Very well, let me just enlighten you for today, hoping that in the near future they will be at your finger tips.
The four wheels of mannerism are: "thank you, I am sorry, please & excuse me". Ooh you thought it was something more complex, am sorry to inform you it is not. Those are the key & most basic priniciples of mannerism that have existed since time immemorial. How we as the self-centred human beings never take the time to utilise them accordingly & always think that everything is a birth right.
When you are ordering food in a restaurant, hotel, cafeteria or the local kibanda don't you usualy say, "nilete beef stew na mchele na isikae". It is quite rare to hear someone say, "tafadhali nilete beef stew na mchele". We are stewards of all that is in life needs to be done, right now. We don't take the time to be courteous, to us we believe that it is a matter of right & demand the services of others just beacuse we are paying the bill.
When someone has held the lift for you so that you can get in, instead of saying thank you, one will just ignore the gesture like as if it is their own house they are entering. If you want to enter a place & the entrance is blocked by people, I believe the key phrase to use is "excuse me, may I pass". I am guessing that those are quite a cumbersome collection of words for our mere selves to utter, such a shame.
In the spirit of bettering ourselves, let us learn (if we can) to treat others like our equals & not to demean them. You might be highly educated, possess vast wealth or the talk of the town, if you can't treat others right all this will be meaningless. Let us ape the ways of our fore fathers & learn the the neaty gritties of mannerism.
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