People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Aristotle uses the word Love as one of the key elements of the highest level of happiness. The Greeks had several words that get transcribed into the English word Love. This one has no emotional connotation to it. It’s more about how you treat people. Treating people with respect, kindness and patience meant you were exhibiting this kind of love.

People are messy. They are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. At least from our point of view. But we are also illogical, unreasonable and self-centered from their point of view. Guess what, we’re illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Get over it and get over others being that way. Love them anyway. The more we treat each other with respect, kindness, and patience, especially when it appears we don’t deserve it, the more love we’ll experience.

Love them anyway!

Headlines from a wonderful little book titled Anyway by Kent Keith