How important are manners or etiquette? Manners or knowledge and practice of etiquette is a reflection of one’s personality which is the exact portrait of one’s true character and attitude towards life. If you see good manners you see a good person.
Sometimes it’s not how one clothes, presents or grooms his or herself that sets him or her apart in a crowded place. It may sound like an X factor but it surely has more to do on how one carries him or herself in public. There is that inevitable something, which even if one is in flip flops and humble shorts, some individuals really do stand out.
Specifically this has to do with the way of how they come across, how they carry themselves. Such confidence, fluidity and finesse in actions, given off in that unmistakable aura, is almost always a product of either good upbringing or learned manners.
Emily Post, an American known for writing on etiquette, described these distinguishable people as possessing of cultivation and worldly knowledge whose perfect actions are not necessarily byproducts of being a member of the fellowship of the wealthy or of exalted birth. These people are the gentle-folk whose good form in speech, charm of manner, knowledge of the social amenities coupled with the instinctive consideration for the feeling of others serve as their credentials by which society of whatever culture respects and recognizes them.
How important are manners or etiquette? Manners or knowledge and practice of etiquette is a reflection of one’s personality which is the exact portrait of one’s true character and attitude towards life. If you see good manners you see a good person.
Manners extend to all facets of our lives. Here is my second entry on Modern Etiquette. This talks about how one should conduct one’s self in public – when we are out and about.
Here are the well-mannered ways that used to be practiced and taught to every little boy and girl. Sadly, modern life’s complexities do not afford every parent the time nor the presence of mind to still teach these so here I am doing my part in reminding myself and others that these etiquettes are still worth practicing.
a) A man who is walking with two ladies – should always take the curb side of the pavement. He shouldn’t sandwich himself between them. The reason? Men should always protect the ladies in whatever way they can and thus he should take the curb side.b) 
A man walking with his beloved - should be careful that his actions don’t call attention to him or herself. Showings of affection done blatantly coupled with loud talking always carries either a frown of response or a pity of understanding that the doer is uneducated in the proper manners.
A man walking with his beloved - should be careful that his actions don’t call attention to him or herself. Showings of affection done blatantly coupled with loud talking always carries either a frown of response or a pity of understanding that the doer is uneducated in the proper manners.c) To call someone – One’s name shouldn’t be shouted in a crowded public place unless absolutely necessary. Absolutely necessary means going beyond waving to attract that particular person’s attention but only for a very important reason.
So much as one can detail the innumerable ways of the etiquette in conducting oneself in public, still, the fundamental rules apply:
1) Do not attract attention to yourself.
2) Stay away from attention-getting-conduct.
3) Keep clothes subtle. Attention should be on you: what you say, what you do and what you already achieved. People’s attention shouldn’t be on what’s on you nor what you have. Unless otherwise it is necessary in one’s profession to attract such kind of attention.
4) Speak in an appropriate tone of voice.
5) Don’t stare.
6) Don’t talk across anyone.
7) Don’t expose your private thoughts or feelings unless otherwise asked to. In this instance this should be done not to the point of discrediting anyone (unless it is also one’s profession to do so speaking the truth).
You get what you deserve. Birds of the same feather flock together. You are only as good as the one you end up spending your life with. You are in this state that you had done to yourself. If these clichés aren’t good enough to wake us up to the truth of how important manners (that others plainly and simply call etiquette) are then we should stop wondering why no one is treating us right and nothing good is happening in our lives.Read more: http://socyberty.com/relationships/etiquette-on-being-out-and-about-conducting-ones-self-in-public/#ixzz1N3Ovc1Zj
