Thought for today:āAcceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.ā
ā Jessica Lange
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This.
Are we becoming less tolerant and forgiving?
Iām not sure, but it is easy to assume so when you read so much in social media about people shunning or disconnecting other people they disagree with; rejecting people who donāt fit their opinions of what is ārightā.
I know I did it during the Brexit debates ā I found some peopleās opinions intolerable and shut them out. Iād like to think Iāve changed since then and will think twice about doing that again.
The mighty Irvin Yalom often speaks of āsitting with discomfortā. Increasingly I hear and read of people being so determined to eradicate any discomfort in their lives that they will shut out any sign of it.
Emotions donāt evaporate when we lock them inside ā they need to be let out else they fester.
And learning to be more tolerant, accepting and forgiving, even of people we judge and say are āwrongā, is what will make the world a better place.
When you can distinguish between people and their behaviour, understand and be curious about this distinction, then the world we live in becomes clearer, brighter.
We can live our perfect lives in our ivory towers, but it isnāt real.
