Putting Others Down

You do not love yourself or anybody else if you have concluded that putting others down is an acceptable behavior to engage in.

If you self-actualize, you have come to esteem yourself. If you esteem yourself, then you esteem everyone else. Since you esteem everybody else, you would never make trouble for them, or hurt them. You may hurt someone casually, accidentally or when you are in a bad mood, but that is just being human and frail. You apologize, and move on.

To put others down systematically or in a patterned way over a long period of time bespeaks of a rotten soul and putrid psyche that must lash out against others out there to ventilate the fumes, ripe in smell of the surfacing, deep self-loathing, internal misery and festering rage.

Turn over a new leaf. Get a grip on yourself. Put no one down anymore, starting right now.

By the way, let no one put you down either. I can think of no better, simpler, more effective plan for increasing the generality of mental health. There are few better, more immediate ways to feel love and give love.