What does it mean to be a decent person?


Order, decency… These words have the same root. Order is the right thing, the state of something.

Order should be in the soul of man. What does it mean? The word must match the case. In our entrance there is an old woman Xenia Petrovna. Her husband died, children with their families live in different parts of the city, visit their mother rarely.

Our neighbor Ivan Gavrilovich, going to my grandfather to play chess, condemns with disapproval her children, who completely forgot their mother. It’s good that there are good people who go to the market to buy Xenia Petrovna, and they will call the pharmacy and the doctor if necessary. At first glance, he speaks correctly. Only now the sympathy of Ivan Gavrilovich is limited to words. Talk about the callousness of children Xenia Petrovna grandfather does not support. He believes that it is ugly to discuss the neighbors’ personal lives. I ask my grandfather: “Why do not you tell Ivan Gavrilovich that you and your grandmother and my mother come to Xenia’s grandmother and help her around the house?” Grandfather answered: “We help the neighbor from the heart, at the behest of the heart, and not for people to say how good we are.” Decency is when you do good and do not shout about it.


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What does it mean to be a decent person?