How a person can get along with an enemy.
It's actually really easy. To get along with an enemy, that is. We have enemies, and we naturally tend to avoid them. That way, we interact with them a lot less. The problem with this approach is that we don't realize that these people might not be our enemies. We have enemies after just one incident. It shouldn't work that way, but it does. It's hard to not base our opinions upon one experience, and these opinions create enemies.
The easiest way to get along with an enemy is to spend time with them. There's most probably so much we don't know about this person because we've spend all this time avoiding them. Spending time with a person can help us know more about a person, and most people have more to themselves than they let on. Your enemy might like or dislike something, but it's still possible to like a person more after knowing such things. You might realize that you get along with your enemy because of your similarities, or even because of your differences. It's like the saying, " Opposites attract."
You're friends with a person most probably because you enjoy being with them. It's almost impossible to know if an enemy could be your potential friend if you haven't given them the chance to prove themselves as friend material. You can't know a person if you've barely met or spent time with them. In this way, humans are a lot like books, because you can't judge a person by his or her looks, the way you can't judge a book by its cover.
A. A. Milne once said, "weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." We just have to know our enemies, because it's possible that they could very well be our friends. We get along with friends, and maybe, we can get along with our enemies then.
(A. A. Milne's can also be trusted because he wrote When We Were Very Young and the Winnie the Pooh books, and the Winnie the Pooh books are AWESOME!)
It's actually really easy. To get along with an enemy, that is. We have enemies, and we naturally tend to avoid them. That way, we interact with them a lot less. The problem with this approach is that we don't realize that these people might not be our enemies. We have enemies after just one incident. It shouldn't work that way, but it does. It's hard to not base our opinions upon one experience, and these opinions create enemies.
The easiest way to get along with an enemy is to spend time with them. There's most probably so much we don't know about this person because we've spend all this time avoiding them. Spending time with a person can help us know more about a person, and most people have more to themselves than they let on. Your enemy might like or dislike something, but it's still possible to like a person more after knowing such things. You might realize that you get along with your enemy because of your similarities, or even because of your differences. It's like the saying, " Opposites attract."
You're friends with a person most probably because you enjoy being with them. It's almost impossible to know if an enemy could be your potential friend if you haven't given them the chance to prove themselves as friend material. You can't know a person if you've barely met or spent time with them. In this way, humans are a lot like books, because you can't judge a person by his or her looks, the way you can't judge a book by its cover.
A. A. Milne once said, "weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." We just have to know our enemies, because it's possible that they could very well be our friends. We get along with friends, and maybe, we can get along with our enemies then.
(A. A. Milne's can also be trusted because he wrote When We Were Very Young and the Winnie the Pooh books, and the Winnie the Pooh books are AWESOME!)
why don't you consider knowing someone you are always avoiding ;)
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ReplyDelete.... unne? :p
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