It is said that love of money is the root of all evil. I say that disrespect is the language evil uses.
Just one word, just a simple look if it be disrespectful, can start gang wars...cause families to break up...pit sister against sister...make foes of friends.
It seems like a very short time ago when "dissing" someone became the justified basis for hatred on the hoof. "Dissing" has become a part of our language...the word's even found in the dictionary today. All that is needed to start a personal war is to feel dissed.
Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me"...now, that is taking responsibility for yourself. Which reminds me...taking responsibility for yourself is the new in-phrase for sounding good, but how many people are willing to do it?
I speak from experience when I say I have been dissed, knew it was just so much jive, but could not wait to tell a friend what that awful person had said about me...automatically turning the words into the person and ensuring, if my friend really cared about me, s/he would think as I now do about that awful person...and tell others, please.
I wish I could say that is all in the past tense. The best I can say for myself is I do know better today, I do better the majority of the time today (sometimes only 51%, but that's the majority), and I sincerely want to do better daily.
That's why the Sermon on the Mound is so important to me...walk the Sermon, and there is no possible way we can diss another, plus we have all the protection that it is possible to have to keep us from feeling dissed.
But it's like skinning my own self to be willing to live it always and all ways.
Thank You.
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