Have you ever stopped to assess how your relationships are? With your family, your friends, your love, colleagues and neighbors too? And with those people with whom you do not sympathize much? It is common to spend life without paying attention to detail regarding our attitudes towards others, but is this good?
During his stay in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of the World Youth Day, in 2013, Pope Francis, while visiting the studios of Radio 106.7 FM Cathedral - official broadcaster of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro - once again guided us to go against the "throwaway culture where everything is disposable."
It is fair and very important to help society to find ways for a culture of inclusion, in which the children, the youth, the elderly, the sick and those who have don’t produce have respect and space. But it is not possible to disregard anymore that these attitudes need to come, first, from each of us, in the practical things of everyday life, in the everyday of our relationships.
The current scenario diverges from the Christian values: if I "don’t get along" with someone, I just don’t say hello. If someone thinks different and you find boring, you exclude from the social networks. What is it, folks ?! Who says that the other should do only what we want, what we think and be at our disposal? No. We 're talking about people, not puppets!
We can’t exclude anyone who displeases us ... This is also embracing the culture of disposability, you see? We must learn to live with differences, to mutually tolerate one another, respecting ourselves in our relationships.
All people are deserving of respect. Maybe not of admiration. But of respect, yes. Is not coherent to love Christ, who we do not see, and not love our neighbor, who we see (I Jn 4,20) with concrete attitudes of tolerance, despite its alleged errors and limitations. I want to live tolerance, because it is not for me to judge anyone. And my brother, as I do, brings in him the dignity of a child of God. Let’s act like this? We’re together in it!
