If someone told you to respect someone how do you go about doing that? That even if you don’t love him, he deserves respect.
I sat there and felt those words in confusion.
It seems I typically respect those I love and I am not sure what I do with the rest. I have no stressful thoughts of them, just space.
I don’t believe I disrespect them, but I guess I just allow them to be and inside there is a space where respect and love feelings would be, a vacancy.
So how would I make respect inside of me?
Is this possible to conjure it up?
And what is wrong if I stand there empty of respect for someone?
Why is it that I am frowned upon for not finding respect inside of me for him? Am I malfunctioning?
When I sat with this awhile, I know that the absence of respect fits perfectly with the absence of actions that would ignite respect.
Without an action, a gesture, something deserving of respect, respect doesn’t arise.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain