Comment Kids that crack (love and respect) (Score 1) 563
The basis to all respect is love, the basis of all love and respect for other people is to love and respect ourselves first.
Society puts so much pressure on *ALL* of us no matter what kind of lifestyle we choose to lead, making it very difficult both love and respect ourselves. We are constantly reminded about the mistakes we make, never allowed to forget them or move on, reminded of how we dont fit into societal norms and taunted and forced to change into something more popular in the societal view. This kind of pressure *is* a method of social control as someone else so rightly pointed out. It opresses us into mindless beings who are here to serve the purpose of accumulating money for corrupt governments.
How can we possibly expect to have love, respect and understanding if we are not allowed or help and even positively prevented from loving respecting and understanding ourselves.
The only person that can see my world is me, because I am the only one that sees through my eyes, feels my feelings and percieves with my thoughs. Until I understand the way I think feel and see, until I am able to fully understand my world and relate it to that of others I am always going to have problems.
I feel for the people of littleton, I feel for everyone that has posted to this thread and others and I have been moved beyond words at what I have read. I myself am only now beginning to realise just how much my school years effected me and how even now I find myself reacting to events that happen in my life currently in ways which have been conditioned in my past... REacting in ways which are very much protective and self preserving instead of ACTing the way I want to act and being the person I want to be as a free being who has choices in the way he lives.
I'm not sure how much sense this has made all I can say is that if we lived in a world where we were allowed to love and respect ourselves then love and respect for others would come automatically.
I cannot blame anyone for what has happened, (flame me if you like, if you do email me don't make the thread suffer), but I firmly believe that this will continue happening until we change the emphasis on our lives. Until society as a whole is based on love and not on blame then we are in for a rollercoater ride of a future.
Merry part,
Ben
Society puts so much pressure on *ALL* of us no matter what kind of lifestyle we choose to lead, making it very difficult both love and respect ourselves. We are constantly reminded about the mistakes we make, never allowed to forget them or move on, reminded of how we dont fit into societal norms and taunted and forced to change into something more popular in the societal view. This kind of pressure *is* a method of social control as someone else so rightly pointed out. It opresses us into mindless beings who are here to serve the purpose of accumulating money for corrupt governments.
How can we possibly expect to have love, respect and understanding if we are not allowed or help and even positively prevented from loving respecting and understanding ourselves.
The only person that can see my world is me, because I am the only one that sees through my eyes, feels my feelings and percieves with my thoughs. Until I understand the way I think feel and see, until I am able to fully understand my world and relate it to that of others I am always going to have problems.
I feel for the people of littleton, I feel for everyone that has posted to this thread and others and I have been moved beyond words at what I have read. I myself am only now beginning to realise just how much my school years effected me and how even now I find myself reacting to events that happen in my life currently in ways which have been conditioned in my past... REacting in ways which are very much protective and self preserving instead of ACTing the way I want to act and being the person I want to be as a free being who has choices in the way he lives.
I'm not sure how much sense this has made all I can say is that if we lived in a world where we were allowed to love and respect ourselves then love and respect for others would come automatically.
I cannot blame anyone for what has happened, (flame me if you like, if you do email me don't make the thread suffer), but I firmly believe that this will continue happening until we change the emphasis on our lives. Until society as a whole is based on love and not on blame then we are in for a rollercoater ride of a future.
Merry part,
Ben
