What do you think of when hearing the word “etiquette”? Knights in shining armor? Possibly. A large table with eight million different forks? Completely overwhelming. A seemingly outdated set of rules that are more important now than ever before? Doubtful.
But, these are increasingly important. We live in an age when interactions with other people are increasingly casual. We can wear whatever we want, contact people whenever we want, and respond however we would like to a myriad of invitations. Our society focuses so much on the ease of convenience that we forget one other factor that is more important: respect.
Isn’t the golden rule to treat others how we would want to be treated? Everyone seems to expect the highest toward themselves and yet gives no one else the same courtesy.
In a millennium when just about anything we could want is at our fingertips, how should we treat others? Is that different from before? Or do we need to look back into how and why things were the way they were in centuries past? Were things better then or simply different? And are there ways in which our current etiquette lacks, or maybe is even an improvement?
It is only an opinion, but I plan to try to answer this question:
True Life: I'm an Etiquette Nut 