Treating people

Are we treating people right? We tend to hurt the people closest to us. Our family, our lover or our friends.

And in the same way, the people that hurt us the most are these people.

How should we treat people that are close to us? How do we show more appreciation for them? How should we love them?

In alot of situations, the solution is relatively simple. A mother yearns for her son to come home and taste the food she has made slaving over the hot stove for the whole afternoon. A wife yearns for her lover to return home early from work so that they can enjoy a night together. A friend yearns for his friend to understand him and be available for a chat or a drink when he feels lonely or upset.

But we tend not to do these things. We tend to tell our mothers that we will be home for dinner, but end up going out and getting drunk and not coming home at all. We tend to tell our wives that we will be home early, but we will hang around the office trying to finish off our work not realising that we have already worked past midnight. We tend to make excuses when our friends call us at inconvenient times, telling our friends that we are not available as we are too tired to talk or go out, or we tell them we will go and then change our minds at the last minute.

Maybe we are treating ourselves too well, and have neglected to treat well the people closest to us.