No matter who you are, what people want the most is to be admired. That’s one of the highest feelings there is. So it’s safe to say we’re constantly looking to feed that admirable fix. It won’t always happen in the presence of those who already admire us. We’re too used them. We see it so much we don’t see it anymore. We want to earn the admiration of strangers and the envy of enemies past. It is through them that we would experience a higher sense of accomplishment (at least, on a superficial level.)
If you learn to admire everyone for always doing their best, even in their failures and in times of their most confused moments, you will quickly find the whole world admiring you for your compassion. There will be no need to pick and choose whom you ignore and whom you chase after. You will awaken to all the rare beauty and skill that everyone has to offer.
-jason mraz-
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