Courage To Show Love

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C S Lewis

God knows I need some of that now. Sometimes I tell myself if it's really worth it to put your heart out for certain people because they don't even care a hoot and they don't want to have anything to do with you.

Agape love should not contain any grudge in it. Yet the bitter feeling of being offended by the rejection makes it so hard to love cheerfully. And the irony of it is, the more I try to love cheerfully, the more hypocritical I feel.

I know I need courage not to give up on loving. But how to do it right?

Someone told me that you can hate a person and still work with him/her perfectly in a professional level. But what he didn't tell me is how to deal with it if that person is not dealing with this working relationship professionally. And if the person is just a kid, it would feel so unfair cos I'm supposed to be the adult here. Damn it. It's so tiring. And I don't think I can live with taking my self (the one holding on to the belief to work towards unconditional loving) out of my work especially in the kind that I'm doing.

Relationships that are not mutual always produces mismatched expectations. One of the parties is bound to get hurt. The one who loves more is always the most vulnerable and suffers the most.

Am I thinking it right?

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