Just as you can learn swimming,
cycling, writing, you can learn loving too.
Overcoming small irritations and injustices
by giving the situation and the perpetrator love, instead of anger, is how you
practice loving. A motorist tries to cut past you and creates a small traffic
jam but ends up blaming you. Don't respond with a how-dare-you look. Smile and
say it was just an 'oops!' situation. At a busy check-out line at a store,
someone edges past you and the cashier does not insist that you must be allowed
to bill first. Don't agitate. Smile and say these things happen! Your boss holds
you singularly responsible for the team's poor show though you have put in
several extra miles. Don't grieve. Pray for your team and your boss.
Our daily Life is peppered with several
hundreds of opportunities__or call them nanosecond tests__to practice loving.
In that nanosecond you have to make a choice. Do you want to respond with anger
or practice loving instead? When you practice loving, you learn forgiving__or,
as Richard Carlson would say, you learn how not to sweat the small stuff. How
you deal with the small things in Life is what determines how you deal with the
big things. The interesting aspect of practicing loving is you don't have to
become loving. You are love and you are capable of loving. The only thing that
comes with practice is that you become more aware of this capability.
Just like Mother Teresa and Gandhi and now,
Narayanan Krishnan, personify love, so can you. Because you are that already.
Just that you don't know it. The love in you doesn't just need some lemon and
honey, it needs practicing. Romance the travails
of everyday Life, and see how loving you really are!
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