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    skitty1458mk2 "you make me want to be a better man"

    may take a while 4 months ago

    basically this goal may be done,seem to be far less bothered than i usually am,don’t know why i let the little things tick me off but it is usually that which winds me up,i don’t sweat the big stuff so much which is odd…....



    Untitled 6 months ago

    I used to be accepting and easy-going. There’s no reason to come down so hard on everyone. I’m just very unhappy.



    Children.... 8 months ago

    I have learnt to be more tolerant by watching my son.
    I was having great difficulty dealing with a crying baby and suddenly realised that my 3 yr old was not concerned by it, so why was I.
    Children know no limitations until an adult tells them they can’t or shouldn’t… so now I ask who says before reacting…



    perfectlioness 4 months til my wedding!!! Yikes! Yay!

    Long entry...because I was intolerant to my sister this weekend 11 months ago

    I have realized lately that I am intolerant to intolerance. This makes me just as bad as any narrow-minded culprit. I try to be a fair, open-minded individual; you live your life the way you want but let me live mine too the way I want. But with so many ethnocentric individuals out there, my brain just wants to bust! I wish everyone could just practice a bit more cultural relativity, quit soliciting their religious beliefs, and in general stop looking down upon people who are different than you! Every time I hear a generalization I just want to SHOUT: Not every Arab hates Jews! Not every Jew is a banker, lawyer, or doctor! Not every Christian is a bible thumping redneck! Not every Indian smells like curry! Not every American is a fat, burger-eating slob! And not every Frenchman hates America! Why the generalities, why the stereotypes, why the racial slurs?! Why can’t we accept that people are different, and that it is a good thing? If everyone was just a tad more tolerant, we could end so much of the hate and violence in this world!

    I will take an example from my own life, which I think if this individual could be a bit more tolerant, then the earth would turn a little happier on its axis. But even further and goes along with why I chose this goal, I need to learn to be more tolerant of these people because my arguing with them just causes more stress and duress. My sister is a hard-core Christian. She will not associate with people who are not like her (which, by the way, I think this idea does not go along with Christian doctrine), which sometimes I think includes me. I think she avoids me. Her only sister. Because I am not carrying around a bible, quoting psalms and visiting bible group every day, or praying to Jesus that the apple I am eating will be ripe or that please Jesus let that light turn green for me or Jesus thank you, thank you for dying for me every second of every day. And because I have friends of various religions, beliefs, etc. she refuses to hang out with me or come to my house if they will be there. And I think she just tolerates my boyfriend, who was raised Catholic because she does not believe “Catholic = Christian” (which last time I checked, Catholics follow the old and new testaments just the same as regular “Christians”). Anyway, I just truly wish that she could just find it in her “pure Christian heart” to be a bit more tolerant of others. I will work on the same.



    We're only human - no more, no less 12 months ago

    Scattered energy

    restless thoughts

    So much to do

    So much I want

    Everything to say

    But no one to hear

    Yelling through smoke

    My voice is not clear

    If ever oh ever

    A wish I could make

    I’d pray for a day

    the world would relate

    Pass no judgement on others

    Have none passed on you

    Talk with your neighbor

    Try on someone’s shoe

    And after you’ve worn them around for a while

    Put your own shoes back on

    Leave with a smile

    And now that you’ve walked

    In a different shoe

    We’d all see why people do what they do

    And respect each other as a human race

    And lend a hand

    Not turn away

    You and I are not the same

    Who we are is not to blame

    Emotions set the heart afire

    Anger, joy, despair, desire

    Gotta concentrate on the good

    Learn from the bad

    Cause Life is the experience

    we’ve never had

    Tana H. 2006 ©



    Be more tolerant 16 months ago

    When im quite and something is just there, its annoying me, i need control myself, everybody, everystuff, everything annoy me. Dont know what to do, i got serious problems but ill be stronger than my bad side, i need to be good, nice and all that. Someday ill be, and that day ill be free.



    one step backwards 17 months ago

    I was becoming more tolerant and then tonight I feel that I went at least half a step backward. It was not completely backward as I did not express my lack of tolerance vocally – but my actions could be open to interpretation and therefore no one really knows why I have left the party.



    tolerance 18 months ago

    I would like to be more tolerant of the lazy and the truly stupid…



    the patience and tolerance should be appled to myself too.... 19 months ago

    just realized this… i will try to give myself another chance from time to time… :)



    I gained some tolerance and some friends also 19 months ago

    I didn’t make any mean comments to the two girls… in the end, they were leaving and one of the girls saw me applying online and we chatted briefly. I was glad that I didn’t give evil eyes or sigh loudly earlier. So, patience and tolerance did pay off most of the times.



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