How many Globe’s Points have been about taking care of yourself and why you should pay attention to your health? Probably too many, but it is still true even if it has been overstated. What about the other people in your life? Emphasizing their health is a point we haven’t beat to death quite yet, yet it’s one that is equally as important as self-care.

Your friends are likely some quality people that you can depend on to stay in your corner, have your back and remind you how to have fun, even if you’re working 99% of the time. While that’s not a super high bar to reach, everyone needs people like that to ground them during bad moments and keep them sane.

What about people you don’t know? Do the random people you see on campus that you’ve only seen once before, or the people you see walking around Downtown, deserve the same respect your friends do?

Of course they do. Most of us are doing our best to get by, and while plenty of people may be doing just fine, you never know what someone is going through. It’s unwise to assume that a random person you haven’t met before is totally OK or is having the best day ever. Don’t make their day worse or rain on their parade by being unnecessarily rude.

Why is this being made a point? Because some have forgotten what it means to appreciate one another – especially those you may not know.

There is rarely a reason why someone should be rude to someone they don’t know walking around or sitting on public transit (for the record, you should be nice to bus drivers and T operators as well). We’re all just trying to get somewhere, hopefully without interruption, so why cause them or the whole bus a bunch of unnecessary, disruptive problems by being rude?

This extends to shopping as well. Anyone who is mean to retail workers and people in the service industry in general needs to do some soul-searching and maybe some character evaluation while they’re at it too. Why bully people that are just trying to do their job?

And of course, this should extend to the people in your classes as well. It’s different if someone is rude to you and doesn’t give you basic respect, but even then, you should not stoop to the level of someone who is treating you badly. Walk away from those situations. And if people aren’t being mean to you then why cause problems? Many of us in class are stressed, overworked and socially drained.

All the editors at The Globe have plenty on our plates, and of course, things aren’t always easy. We’ve learned that being nice to each other and having each other’s back can really make a world of a difference even in an unpredictable, fast-paced newsroom environment. Not many things in a newsroom are applicable everywhere else, but having respect for each other is.

Do good for yourself. Do good for your friends. And lastly, do good for the people around you, even if you don’t know them that well. People in Pittsburgh are not as mean as some may think.