“Be Cool to the Pizza Dude” Analysis Essay Example

because of the kindness in my heart,” to tie in her definition of equality to the overall importance of kindness, more specifically, towards the pizza dude (“Be Cool to the Pizza Dude” 2).

Adams wraps up her essay by adding the suggestion of tipping the pizza dude for good luck, and good karma. Response Much like Sarah Adams wrote in “Be Cool to the Pizza Dude,” I too have an operating philosophy which is to respect other people’s time to speak and to hear them out. I think, in all honesty, it is one of the most disrespectful things to speak while someone else is speaking; interrupting them from their discourse. It’s just saying that one person’s words are more important than the other. It’s something that goes out the window these days, which seems to affect little to no people.

Sure people get annoyed, roll their eyes, stomp their feet, and wait impatiently; but never really amend the situation. They just steal the speaking slot right back, finding satisfaction in the reversion back to their original statement. I believe, even if I am the last person on earth that does, that there is a symbiotic relationship that comes from listening to other people; a true win-win situation. Not only do they get the respect that they deserve to express their opinions or feelings, but I gain the knowledge and insight; in them and also myself.

Listening to people, and I mean really listening, expands the picture one might have of a person in their heads into a living, breathing human being. A human being with emotions, fears, ambitions, dreams, and thoughts just like mine. Thoughts as vast

and abundant as everyone else’s; not that different, yet never the exact same. By listening to someone, that someone become real. And realizing someone else in this world is real, helps us to not be so self-revolving, and see the other 7 billion people on the planet for what they are; real human beings.