In life we learn many lessons. Some are a result of experience and others
are obtained simply by listening to those people older and wiser than ourselves.
The lesson that I closest is to my heart is to try and love everyone for who
they are.
I often find myself looking at someone that I don't like thinking horribly
mean thoughts about them. Then I catch myself and realize that I’m not being a
nice person and tell myself, "just try to love them, you don't have to
like them but just love them enough to give them respect and treat them like a
human because that is what they are.”
I honestly think that even though I hold this so close to my heart I fail at
this all too often.
One reason that I have found this lesson to be so very important is because
in the past when I have gotten into a big fight with someone or someone has
done something bad to me I have bad mouthed them up and down; and I did it
constantly. After a couple of days of being so obsessed with my
"hatred" for that person I found that being hateful to them was
extremely tiring to both my mind and body.
It can make me feel physically ill to be mean to someone simply for the
purpose of making myself feel better, which if it is making me feel physically
ill, it’s obviously not making me feel better about the situation!
There is one person in my life that has really taught me to love others no
matter your true feelings for them and that was my grandma Claudia. This woman
was the only person that I know that could really love others for who they are.
She had the most genuine heart of all of the people I have ever met and could
truly see past all flaws of another human being.
The ability to love others for who they are is an ability that isn't easily
obtained, but once it is obtained, it is an ability that will make your life so
much happier. When others are around you, your happy aura will radiate to them
and make those around you happy as well.
The ability to love everyone for who they are is one that even I have yet to
master, but when I do, I know that life will be a thousand times more
pleasurable than it is today.
So as you can see, just loving people for who they are can be challenging
but that challenge is one I am willing to take if it means having a happier
life; and I think you should take that challenge too.
