Treat everyone with respect, sow the good and always be grateful!
If you want to practice three principles for healthier relationships, treat everyone with respect, sow the seeds of good and always be grateful. Because it’s not about what others do or don’t do for you, but what you are willing to give. As we give, so we receive.
Treat everyone with respect
The greatest gesture of superiority is to be kind. Keep kindness as your way of treating others, even in the worst moments. Don’t be annoyed by your arrogance or disrespect. Be silent when you have nothing to say and try to be true to yourself, but always with respect.
All people equally deserve respect. Many times we respect those who occupy some eminent position above us, but we are not capable of showing respect to a person on the street or even someone in our own home. The respect that your boss deserves is the same respect that your brother, your partner and a homeless person deserve. If you insult one, you insult them all, because you only reveal that your respect is not real, because respect when practiced is integral, it is given to all equally.
Sow the good
Don’t sow contention, don’t become the catalyst for an argument between two or more people, you may enjoy it, but you are only accumulating judgment over your head. Before you stick out your tongue and cause a huge fire, think about what you have to say, and if it hurts you or others, shut up. Because even the dumbest person is counted as wise when he is silent, says a Bible proverb.
Instead of investing your energies in meditating on how to hurt others, try to invest all your efforts in doing good. Because good pursues all those who promote it. If you want to live happy days on this earth, then spread good wherever you go, be the catalyst of reconciliation and forgiveness, show your best face and never stain your hands in the attempt to harm others.
Always be grateful
If someone does something for you, thank them. But not only in words, always pay good for good, with actions, with good deeds and with respect. Do not betray the one who holds out his hand to you, on the contrary, be prepared to hold out your hand to him when he needs it most. Because gratitude is not saying “thank you”, it is having an attitude of reciprocity to respond when necessary.
If you do these things, be sure that injustice will not come knocking at your door, for many times, that which we call “injustice” is actually pure and unadulterated justice, the harvest of many things that we sow without realizing it. Everything we give to the world is like a boomerang, sooner or later it comes back to us, knocks on our door and gives us what we deserve. So be careful what comes out of you to other people.