Tag: Mark Twain

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