OTHERS >>> 2. Accepting others

Patience

Open to ideas

Open to change

3 keywords in acceptance

Most people accept others when they are in the same wavelength, which means there’ll be rejection.

To accept others does not mean you agree with them. It is more or recognizing the ways they are different and that they are different for their own reasons. It also does not mean that their reason makes sense to you. You just respect them for the way they are.

Most fighting in the world happens just because people make choices not to accept others as who they are. It may be for many excuses like religion, race or politics, but the questions are …

What if you let others be who they are or what they choose to do?

Would it harm you if you let them be whom they decide to be?

Is there anything wrong for others to choose to be different then you?

In a way, acceptance is to put aside bias & recognize others in their right to be different. Change agents do not fight difference, but fuse difference as a starting point towards achieving greater things.

Adolf Hitler was an example of person who detested Jews & in his hatred for them, it drew him to conduct the Holocaust

One of the great drivers of acceptance & diplomacy was Gandhi, who accepted the way the British ruled India. He did not fight it with what his fellow countrymen thought, through bloodshed, but instead, fought it with gentleman diplomacy & protests.