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Respect for others

Ordinary people don’t make a fuss about life – kids,
work, school, stress, relationships, tiredness,
kindness. The humdrum realities of life require a
special kind of dedication and commitment. The
single person raising a family on benefit while
perhaps recovering from addiction will never
receive a medal. Perhaps they will never be thanked
or remembered except by the few whose lives they
touched and made better, with an unsolicited act of
kindness. Do I respect my fellow men and women
and help them whenever I can?

Selfishness and a rampant ego make it extremely
hard to perform unsolicited acts of kindness. They
probably make it extremely hard as well, to really
love someone. But if we cannot give love, how can
we expect to receive it? Christianity teaches that to
love is to suffer because the sublime feeling of love
is inevitably going to make us unhappy, if only one
day, by its absence. When a loved one suffers, we
suffer too. And when a loved one recovers, we rejoice
in that recovery. Love and suffering are connected.
Today I will remember that.