I live in UAE. It’s 2019 and this year’s national theme is ‘Year of Tolerance’.
Nobody talked me into doing this mind you, but thinking about it, I genuinely feel like this is something that desperately needs to be addressed.
By definition it is; the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with.
So I guess you could say the idea of tolerance is different for different people. For me, it’s all about extending the kind of respect to anyone’s opinion the way I’d want respect extended to me.
It’s a two way street that many of us refuse to acknowledge because we’re too busy judging someone for having an opinion vastly different from our own.
But like many- if not all- things, tolerance comes from love. Period.
The only reason why racism and all those other “-isms” exist is because someone somewhere a long time ago wasn’t loved enough to love the world the way it was made-flaws and all.
Love is kind. Love is pain.
Love is patient. Love is blind.
Love is pain. Love is hunger.
Love is tolerance.
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