‘’Good manners are apart of good morals.’’ ( Richard Whatley)
Sometimes the highschool highways can seem like being at a concert where most of us are trying to get to our classroom and we all packed trying to get one another to move a little faster, but today we are gonna talk about hallway manners, for like said by (Abel Stevens) ‘’ Politeness is the art of choosing between one’s real thoughts.’’ Meaning even if it’s hard to, we should use manners in the so-called hallways.
To begin,let’s highlight that we all have one goal when walking in the halls. You have the ones trying to get to class, the ones who take longer routes, and the ones who wonder about their own world, either way we all are trying to get to one place. We must also remember that we have one hallway to share, so how do we all get what we want while being polite and civil about it?
One thing we must remember is that none of us own the hallways, so we all have to remember it is kind of like a shared way of transport; we are all trying to reach a destination. Therefore we must not push through each other or tell people to move and or shove, we will all get to our classes.If your shoving and pushing to get to your class you may not see it as a problem however the people or person your shoving might not have the same view, therefore what must be done? ‘Well for starters let’s start with the simple form of a solution, even though you may not want to sometimes, because in the words of fellow students, ‘’people don’t know how to walk,’’ we can simply just say excuse me in a nice way. Another way to be polite is that when you bump into people you can say that you are sorry, sometimes people just do these things and don’t even apologize and or show remorse. We all have to remember we are all people and each of us deserves kindness, we must treat each other the way we want to be treated, even if it’s hard. Now a great way to avoid hallway issues involving shoving is before going into the halls, think, would I appreciate somebody pushing or shoving me?
However shovers are not the only ones, we also have to talk to you slow walkers or ones on your phones who need a little advice too. We must take into consideration that although you may be texting somebody back after a long time without your phone and not being able to respond,people are trying to get to their class. A solution to this is that you can either do it at the end of the class when you receive your phone, and or if you don’t want to be late, wait till you arrive at your next class and before you put your phone in the famous boxes text that person back.
Lastly we have the music listeners, now sometimes when we have headphones it’s hard to notice the outside surroundings, however we must be open to how slow or fast we are walking, or if we bump into someone to just say a quick im sorry.
Overall even though it may be hard physically and emotionally to practice manners in the hallway, with the tightness and everyone close to each other and the irritation we must remember we are all in the same space so we must be kind to each other, even if we rather not to. We must remember manners.
