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Love: A Lifestyle

The how's and whys of loving everyone.

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Love: A Lifestyle
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Everyone should love to love for love. This is a moral I try to live by. I believe this can help anyone and everyone on a small and large scale. Though it takes time, love really conquers all (yes I know it's cheesy). Loving everyone isn't about hugging everyone you see or about not being angry. Those things are of course allowed too, (who am I to say you can't anyways) but to me this is about forgiveness, open mindedness and creating happiness. Loving everyone isn't for yourself. It's a selfless lifestyle that is intended to the benefit of the world around you. This being said, it's important to also know that it does improve the quality of your life if you love everyone correctly.

When loving everyone, you can't say "I love everyone except for that person and this person and maybe these people." This is a deeper concept that is about going into your mind and realizing forgiveness towards those who have wronged. Not only is forgiveness healthy for your mind, it's good for your overall wellbeing.

With forgiveness, you're able to accept events and move on with a positive attitude. With this, love follows closely and allows more positivity into your life. Not only is it easier to love others when you forgive, but it's easier to love yourself as well. When you forgive yourself for wrong doings, it becomes much easier to accept yourself for who your are and to focus on what's important to you and what's going on around you. You must love yourself before you love others.

When you approach people and situations, I believe it's important to always accept others. Acceptance and open--mindedness is a huge step to loving everyone. Prejudice, stereotypes, and negative judgement isn't a good way to love. Those are actually the first steps to hating people. As simple as it may sound, perfecting the positive mindset you have when meeting new people can not only improve your love, but also improve your overall outlook on the world. For example, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, racism and all other negative ideas towards a group of specific people are the perfect example of what not to think. There's no room for those thoughts, I feel your goal should be to achieve happiness and love for everyone.

This process is not intended to help yourself. As I stated before, this is intended to be a selfless lifestyle with the intention of helping and improving the world around you. Love is what helps us coexist with one another and what makes us enjoy experiences to the fullest. Coupling these thoughts and emotions together is the best way to learn to love and to change your lifestyle for the best


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