The best way I have found–to live, is lovingly; loving myself, and loving others… moment to moment.
You will get angry at yourself and others, from to time–despite trying to live this way, but as long as you ‘call yourself back to the path of love’, you will be better off than if you don’t.
What does loving yourself and others mean? Well, we can start by understanding that we are human and that means we are very special, and so should be treated very specially, treating others specially, too; as potentially brilliant and exceptionally capable creatures, as our species has been been proven to be, we shouldn’t take one another for granted or abuse one another out of entitlement, letting our expectations of others exceed the reality of their potential.
Human beings should be revered by each other, as a virtual miracle if billions of years of cosmological evolution, tens of millions of years of biological evolution, and several hundreds of thousands of years of existence of a particular surviving type of human–and as the products of social evolution. We have come a long way! However, we are still the product of society, family, economics, personal health and local conditions. Everyone is doing the best he or she can, until they know otherwise and are able to change and grow to the best of their ability.
Think of it this way. We that are human could have become something else, but we are here–as we are, fortunate, living alongside other highly intelligent mammals; other primates, the dolphins, the whales….
And if you believe in God, then another reason to love and respect yourself and others is, God created that process which resulted in our being here, resulting in a masterpiece.
However great we are in our capacity to love, think, grow, change and create–or to manipulate, control and destroy–and to repairs, these potentials should not be seen as an excuse or a reason for the right to control others–other species or other human beings. This is, however, what we have done and are still doing, and it may yet be the eventual end of us.
Let’s do what we can in our communities to spread respect and love to all.
