We say it a lot but many times I truly doubt if many understand what this means to love your neighbor as you love yourself. As much as many won't want to admit it we all love ourselves really much, infact you could say every human is selfish in a way.
We want the good things of life for ourselves, but then we claim to love our neighbors as ourselves and yet we still wish them bad. We speak ill of others when we don't want ill spoken of us. We tarnish the good names of others when we don't want our own names to be tarnished.
I think it is one of man's greatest hypocrisies, the fact that we don't want something or things done to us but we don't bat an eyelid when we do those exact same things and even worse to others. If we all could love our neighbors just 30% of how much we loved ourselves the world would 100 times over, be a better place.
Loving your neighbor as yourself means you won't backbite against them and tarnish their good name. Loving your neighbor as yourself means you won't steal from them because you also don't want to be stolen from. Loving your neighbor as yourself means you won't brutalise and kill others because you also don't want to be brutalised and killed senselessly.
Even if it's just a single person you choose to love half as much as you love yourself, you do your bit to make the world a better place. The future generations will thank us for it.
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I think one of the biggest flaws of The Millennials or Generation Y, that is those born between 1977 - 1995 and the Generation X those born between 1965 - 1976 as compared to Generation Z those born from 1996 to present day, is that the former generation
always demanded respect without earning it.
Don't get me wrong, no one Generation is better than the other and they all have their flaws and strengths but the fundamental lesson of "Respect is reciprocal" remains the same across all generations. Respect is like money, it's a give and take. Only when you give respect to whom it is due do you also get respect back.
To be very honest, I'm a respect freak. I believe I should be accorded the respect I deserve because I also don't fail to give respect to others when it is due. That's the way it's truly meant to be. Give respect to others and you will get respect back. That's the order the world was created in.
So it's always a sore sight for me when I come across those who don't give respect in the least form but they want to get and receive respect from others. It doesn't work that way my friends. Give and it shall be given into you, and respect is included in that.
Everyone deserves respect from the littlest to the greatest. Everyone should be accorded with the respect they duly deserve. Do this and know peace my friends.
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It's not anybody's place to tell you how to spend your money. I see many people especially on Social media who when people maybe acquire something new or lavish money say you could have used the money for something better.
They tell you, you could have used the money for probably something like helping the less privileged or giving to the needy. While all those are good and admirable and we should all try to do them, it's really no one's place to tell you how to spend your money. Making money is not easy anyhow you choose to make it whether legally or illegally, money doesn't come easy at all.
So if you choose to lavish your money then by all means do so. But I do think you should be humble in all you do. Do remember that what you have and is gargantuan to you is minute to someone else. That money you see as all in all is change to someone else, that at least should make you humble.
That money rather than being tossed around and used to project a fake image and a life that is not the reality should rather be used to touch and bless the life of others. It is in serving humanity that we make ourselves leaders and get others to serve us. That my friends is a big irony of life, only by being a servant can you be a master.
Whatever you choose to do with what you have is up to you, but humility truly does pay and blessing humanity will never go unrewarded. Sit down, be humble and watch more good things come to you.