However, I really struggle accepting this. I beat myself up constantly over my distaste for certainly people and their ways. I'm trying to see the good, but it doesn't erase or cancel out the bad. And there's always things that are "personal"... Ya know? Something that personally offends you, gets your goat, and it feels like an attack against who you are. Those are the hardest things to just, look past and get over.
And then, there's that oh so ugly but oh so natural feeling of envy/jealousy. Feeling this in combination with the personal attack makes for a deadly and powerful combination of ill feeling forces.
My question, is how does one combat this in an effort to be more cheerful, open minded, and compassionate?
There is a way.
Effort #1.
Fake the kindness. I've always been a firm believer in fake it till you make it. Eventually, it can increase good and decrease not so good.
Effort #2.
Put yourself in his or her shoes
Effort #3.
Perspective. Look at it from a different angle...?
(I'm trying here)
For now, I'm tired and it's bed time.
Stay tuned for "The Conversion"
