Your Preference may not be MINES...

I apologize for my lapse in sharing by blogging; wonderful changes are coming soon, but in the meantime, I’m back and ready to share…

Every person has the opportunity to live their life on their terms.   At times, an individual’s life decisions can be difficult to understand, annoying, chaotic and/or troublesome to another.  What is normal to a certain individual can be crazy thinking to you.  However, we all have the freewill to make choices…

One’s preference may be to drink their coffee dark while another thinks it would taste awful that way and prefer their coffee with flavored cream and sugar; one person may think gaining a college degree is overrated and expensive while another person sees it as an opportunity for expansion, promotion and leverage.  Is anyone more right than the other?  In these cases no, we all have preferences! 

Even in our life convictions when we take a stand not compromise any other view point as right, an individual still has the right to disagree.   This was a difficult life lesson for me.  I had to mature in the understanding that he or she has the right to live their life the way they desire.  However, I do not have to agree with you to love you. 

Healthy relationships at times require we agree to disagree.  How has someone else’s preferences caused discomfort for you?  And how can you look beyond their difference(s)?