It's really a journey and it's surprising the things you learn about others and yourself; perhaps the hardest part of the process for me is still trying to treat people who don't treat you right, with the respect, care, and consideration you'd still like to be treated (and I can see how this would seem like total nonsense to some people).
"Every comedian, every comedian dreams of hosting The Tonight Show and—for seven months—I got to do it. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second [of it].... All I ask is one thing, and I'm asking this particularly of young people that watch: Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism; for the record it's my least favorite quality. It doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien, on his departure from The Tonight Show, January 22, 2010.
I was rightfully raised to always treat others the way you'd like to be treated - it's extremely difficult and sometimes I even fail, but I'm trying really hard to hold on to that. I won't lie, it's caused me a lot of hurt through the times, but one shining thought to me whenever someone (and I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt and say here, unintentionally) hurts me is that that person doesn't understand, doesn't understand how my life has been and how whatever that person did etches with the reality of the situation I'm in to cause such a sad hurt. It's in those hard moments that I'm confronted with the decision to re-evaluate my relationship to that person. And even more difficult, the way in which how I can let that person know more about how that person made me feel in the spirit of love.
And on this journey, more and more, I'm learning how I should be treated.
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