I’m sure that most of us have experienced someone ridiculing us or putting us down for limitations or characteristics that we didn’t have control over. Maybe it was about wearing glasses or being a little overweight or some other thing like that. Children and youth often do such things to each other. And that’s bad […]
Category: Human Relationshiips
In my experience, it can become easy to say “I love you” to a loved one without giving it a lot of thought. And when the other person says it first, we can feel it as an obligation to say it back. But if we love someone and if we want our words to really […]
“I’m right! Don’t question me!”Pride like what we find in that quote can be manifested in many ways. Pride involves a feeling of superiority, a sense that in some way we are better or deserve more than the typical person. I looked online for a good definition of pride. The one I liked most from […]
Do the people who are close in your life know how much you love them? Do you tell them you love them? If you do, is that really enough? We can say words all day, but if our actions don’t speak love, is our love significant? Is it even real? When we speak of someone […]
If you spend much time in the news, it becomes pretty obvious that there is a lot of pain and suffering in our world and quite often it’s caused by other people. Even worse, it’s too often that people hurt those they are closest to, such as a spouse or child. I’m not talking only […]
I imagine that most people reading this have heard the often-cited statistic that about 50% of marriages end in divorce. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about a third of all Americans age 20 or older have been divorced at some time (“Number, Timing, and Duration of Marriages and Divorces: 2016”). That number is based […]
We people–human beings–are created to need people in our lives. Even if you believe you can live without people, the truth is we all depend on other people for many things. In fact, each of us is only here because of a relationship between a man and woman, our parents. I believe it is possible […]
A big donation to support a college or another good cause is great. Such donations help keep good things going. But they also tend to get a lot of attention, especially the larger ones. Some modest publicity about donations from the wealthy is perhaps warranted, but should never be the main goal of the donation. […]