I recently came across an Abraham Lincoln quote : "I don't like that man , I must get to know him better". It set me thinking.
All of us have personal preferences about the type of people we hang out with. Commonalities bring people together , differences further apart. But what if we choose to treat the next random person we meet as our future best friend? What if we give him/her the benefit of doubt and try our best to focus on the aspects of the person that we like? What if we take the first step to shed the invisible barriers?
Honest Abe is indeed telling us that it is the people we don't like that we must get to know better, for these are the people we are likely to have misjudged and from whom we stand to learn.
Don't you think that people who don't like you would feel differently if they knew you better? Perhaps, it's time to turn the table around!
All of us have personal preferences about the type of people we hang out with. Commonalities bring people together , differences further apart. But what if we choose to treat the next random person we meet as our future best friend? What if we give him/her the benefit of doubt and try our best to focus on the aspects of the person that we like? What if we take the first step to shed the invisible barriers?
Honest Abe is indeed telling us that it is the people we don't like that we must get to know better, for these are the people we are likely to have misjudged and from whom we stand to learn.
Don't you think that people who don't like you would feel differently if they knew you better? Perhaps, it's time to turn the table around!
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