Step 1: Think!
Developing a strong sense of self-respect can help one fulfil his or her potential. This will in turn lead to the individual being able to develop healthy relationships, making the people around him seeing him as a person worthy of respect. Respecting yourself means accepting yourself, and working on becoming the person you always dreamed of becoming. So first do see what makes you feel happy. Make sure that you are happy with who you are and do make the world treat you as you deserve to be treated.

Step 2:
Go through the wikihow link of how one is to respect oneself https://www.wikihow.com/Respect-Yourself

Step 3:
Read the lyrics to the song “Our Lives” https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/calling/ourlives.html

Then go over the following questions:

• Why is the singer using the third person plural (we)?
• What should everyone be dreaming about?
• What do you understand by a ‘better life’?
• For which reason do you think are we here?
• How can we make our days ‘worth living’?
• Why can we truly believe that ‘nothing can stop us’?
• How can our ‘faith be broken’ and how can our hands get ‘bound’?
• Is it worth the risk or should we resort to the lack of ambition to prove oneself, to be aimless and to lack direction?

Go through the rest of the lyrics and together with the students, identify all the positive points this song makes, and end the lesson everyone singing to the ‘Our Lives’ lyrics.

Step 3:
Identify all positive points this song makes.

Concluding activity
Listen to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn7CBtdM3dE