Thoughts for the Day
Good morning,
“Respect and Love”
Honesty has a lot more to do with respect than it does with love. You don’t need feelings to tell the truth, you don’t need emotion to be loyal, and you shouldn’t need an incentive to be genuine. The highest respect for love is humility. Its realizing you’re wrong, being big enough to apologize, and strong enough to fix things. When people start losing respect for the ones they claim to care about its a sign that something drastic needs to change. Before love, before trust, before commitment, you need a foundation of respect and that comes through genuine friendship. Respect is everything. When you lie to somebody, not only do you deny them the truth, you deny yourself something real. Until the truth is presented, everything that comes after a lie is fake. Respect yourself, respect your partner, and honor the truth enough to always keep it real. Most situations breakdown when lies in the name of love begin to replace friendship built off of honesty and respect. If you take a short cut to building your relationship, you can’t complain about things falling down because you didn’t take the time to lay a stable foundation. Real love won’t start out of lust, you can’t ask your feelings to jump through hoops just because your body couldn’t handle temptation. The way a person treats you is a direct reflection of how they see you. If they treasure you, you’ll be adored. If they take you for granted, you’ll be ignored. That’s just the way things “work” when taking the easy way out comes in front of putting forth effort. Fall with the truth rather than flying with a lie. If you’re at the bottom, the only way to go is up, but if you’re flying with a lie, crashing is inevitable. Respect, compromise, and communication are the little things that help keep love. If the ones you love don’t give you respect, love yourself enough to be remembered as the one who left. Regardless of like, love, infatuation, whatever it may be, respect is required at a minimum. Don’t ever willingly stay somewhere your presence isn’t appreciated. Self-respect permeates itself in every area of your life. When you don’t play with that, people won’t play with you.
Just my thoughts good people, just my thoughts
Rob Hill
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