{"id":23920,"date":"2025-09-21T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=23920"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:33:00","slug":"all-we-need-is-love-but-how-do-we-love-our-fellow-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/all-we-need-is-love-but-how-do-we-love-our-fellow-man\/","title":{"rendered":"All We Need Is Love \u2013 but HOW Do We Love Our Fellow Man??"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Having way too much time to think while returning to Denver via Delta from a biz trip to Florida, I got to wondering about a conversation my co-worker, Casey, and I had at lunch recently.<\/p>\n

We were sitting outside at my favorite Italian restaurant (ohmigosh I LOVE their La Caprese! lol) having lunch when we began talking about loving our fellow man.<\/p>\n

Sitting there watching hundreds of cars pass by, dozens of folks walking in and out of various stores and remembering the thousands of folks we encounter on the freeways each day, we couldn\u2019t help but muse on how we are supposed to LOVE all of them.<\/p>\n

For me, when I think of \u2018loving\u2019 a person I think of how I *feel* when holding my child in my arms, seeing my best friend again after years of living in different states, going home and being with my mom and my brothers. I have never gotten that same \u2018feeling\u2019 when stuck in a traffic jam or watching masses of people out in public going about their daily lives. But maybe that is part of the answer right there. Maybe it\u2019s not that fuzzy, \u2018oh my god i never want to let you go and can\u2019t imagine my life without you\u2019 FEELING. Maybe it\u2019s much more simple.<\/p>\n

As I thought more and more about it \u2013 almost to the point where I had myself confused enough that I nearly forgot what the original goal of the thought process was \u2013 I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that it\u2019s not that typical emotional feeling of love we\u2019re supposed to have for all. I believe it\u2019s much more along the lines of respect and compassion.<\/p>\n

To me, \u2018loving\u2019 our fellow human beings, and all life on this planet we share, means that I respect their right to be. I respect their right to live and be safe and hold their own opinions. I respect their right to be healthy and happy and to earn a living. I respect their right to be in a place where I am and where I am not and I completely respect their right to hold beliefs, views and values different from my own \u2013 even when I do not agree with them. And, I will willingly give of my time, effort, energy and attention to help better the life of another.<\/p>\n

To test my theory about the compassion end of it, as I de-planed in Cincinnati to catch my connecting flight, I imagined my own reaction if I were to witness one in this rushed mass of people falling seriously ill or getting injured. What would I do? What would I feel? I mean, I wouldn\u2019t know the person \u2013 so, in the traditional emotional sense of the word, I wouldn\u2019t \u2018love\u2019 them. But I would react. I would be concerned and I know me well enough to know that I\u2019d pour heart, soul and energy into doing anything and everything I could to help the person in need. I know that if I found out that one of these folks needed an ear, a shoulder, $10 for food, prayer or one of a myriad of other things I would be able to provide \u2013 I\u2019d do it \u2013 in a heartbeat. Is that love? It\u2019s not the touchy-feely emotional love \u2013 but it is definitely compassion.<\/p>\n

I thought about how I feel when I see children hurt and hungry on TV \u2013 I\u2019ve never met them, touched them, listened to them, held them but oh my gosh how my heart bleeds for them. How I want to crawl through the screen and grab every single one of them and bring them home to love and care for them. Or how my heart aches for a mother who lost her child or the family left behind after a tragedy which took one of their own.<\/p>\n

I think we over-use the word \u2018love\u2019. It\u2019s common to hear my daughter say \u201coh I LOVE my truck!\u201d or my son to say \u201cman, I LOVE chicken cordon bleu!\u201d But they don\u2019t, not really. They enjoy them, they appreciate them, they don\u2019t want to lose them in their lives\u2026but love? Nah.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should try to \u2018rewire\u2019 our views and our semantics on unconditional love, love of humanity, and those types of phrases. Maybe we\u2019d give it less lip service and more action if we called it \u2018unconditional compassion, respect and acceptance\u2019 of all who live in this world with us.<\/p>\n

Of course \u201cAll we need is compassion, respect and acceptance\u2019 just doesn\u2019t have the same ring to it as \u201cAll we need is love\u201d.<\/p>\n

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