essay - GMAT: Issue 39

Courtesy is rapidly disappearing from everyday interactions, and as a result, we are all the poorer for it.

From your perspective, is this an accurate observation? Why or why not? Explain, using reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

Answer:
I don't think that courtesy is disappearing and we are getting poorer for it. Courtesy is still alive and is thriving as a depth of our civilization advances, and people are getting more polite and compassionate little by little. I'll show my belief toward courtesy and mention how it has been changing through the time.

Courtesy is a kind of oil which makes our interactions better. When people put oil to a machinery device, the machine works better, for the oil makes the cogs and levers inside the machine smooth. Courtesy works as oil does. Anywhere people communicate with others, courtesy is needed to have good communication. People meet their neighbors in the morning, and they greet each other with courtesy. People have meetings with their business partners, and they negotiate and discuss with courtesy in order to build a win-win relationship which is only a way to make the deal thriving. If courtesy were not there, people hate each other and as a result, they devastate themselves as well as their opponents. And courtesy has been developed according that the time goes by. People have acquired it through the development in their civilization and humanity, because they knew that it was critically necessary to develop a good shape of the world.

At the same time, as the speaker concerns, advance of human beings brings bad aspects in terms of communication. The Internet brought us evolutionary methods to communicate, but it also brought us fewer opportunities to communicate with others in person. Industrization brought us exquisite convenience to live out, but it also brought us solidarity which is caused by the useful lives. And as a result, it may be said that people face a possibility that they undermine their ability to communicate with the others. I believe, however, that good aspects of our evolution overcome bad aspects of it. Therefore, people continuously develop their courtesy as a tool of better communication and as a result, people enjoy their development of humanity and prosperity.

To sum up, the opinion that courtesy is diminishing and people are getting poorer at courtesy is apparently exaggerated. It is just a small aspect of our whole nature. In my belief, people continue developing their ability of communication including courtesy and will enjoy better lives with courtesy.