| When I was young. I
could never understand why our family car was so old. When it finally wore
out, I could not understand why its replacement was another bottom-of-the-line
model. I did not understand until I graduated from high school.
At that point, my dad told me that he had saved a
fairly considerable sum for my college education.
That revelation explained a lot of things.
If only I had known.
We often have misconceptions about why people do
what they do, or why they are the way they are. This is especially true
when we are continually irritated by the behaviour of others.
We forget that a grouchy person may be ill; or
that an aloof person may never have been loved; or that frightened person may
never have known the security of an accepting family.
We see behaviour in others that we cannot
understand because we do not know the reasons behind it.
We cannot judge, but we can give love, and if
there is a need for change in ourselves or in others, the love we give may be
the catalyst for it. |
