Live and let live

Bitch hat! Go away and come here no more!

Life is what you make it.

Why are humans concerned with the behaviors of others? I can only see my world.

Respecting self is the start of this viewpoint. When I respect others and hold to my way of life,I am able to see others way of life. I think there is plenty of stuff for everyone to enjoy. Learning to understand other people is one of the greatest pleasures in my life. Everytime I discover a new way of life I grow in my own way.

I think that I do try live and let live. If I don’t agree with how someone is living – I don’t try to STOP it – the most I feel I can do is disentangle myself from the situation. I will still be nice and polite, and friendly but if we are not sharing the same life views – is there a need for us to maintain the relationship? I don’t know…

But what I really need is for other people to be honest about how they want to live. My (soon-to-be-ex) husband hid his sexual identity from me, only to get mad at me when I found out his secrets and accused me of somehow not allowing him to live how he wants to live – well, what was I supposed to do?

We separated and now he has a webpage, lying about his age, profession, and everything else – yet his motto is, “live and let live”.

Is it okay to live and let live if a person is knowingly endangering themself? When do we intervene (nicely – with advice?) When my husband says, “it would be better for my family if I was dead” and gets involved in abusive relationships and dangerous sex – do I stand by, shrug my shoulders and say, “live and let live?”

Help me with some advice… what are the limitations of “live and let live”... I need peace!

In 1994 I visited Key West and learned that this was the motto of the Conch Republic. The atmosphere in Key West is charged with this attitude. It’s a place where you can be whoever and whatever you want, and it’s all okay. I think I’ve spent these last 13 years trying to get to the place in my life where I can live by this motto and I do believe I’ve finally arrived.

Problem is… my partner in life is completely the opposite. He must criticize everything and everyone, even when it has absolutely nothing to do with him. He can’t stop himself. And I can’t listen to it anymore. Something’s got to give.

But at least I know who I am now. More later.

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”
Bertrand Russell

If all of us could just live and let others live without paying any judgement, I think more people would be happy.
I don’t know why so many people feel the need to judge others when they won’t even win anything with that. But they do it, and the outcome is the number of people feeling miserable and unhappy…
Society today judges you not for who you are, but for what you have, by how you look…and who are we to judge anyone?

You know how sometimes, people in your life do things that make you think…”WHAAAAATTT?” Well, what is the point of having any sort of reaction as to how someone other than yourself is living their life? I mean, it is THEIR life. They can learn, and should learn and live for themselves.

This is just something that I try to live by everyday, by not judging others, letting them live their lives according to what they think is better for them, trying to respect free will and the right that every human has to be free.
I already live by this idea, but it’s just something you have to work on every single day!

i want to live life it ends so soon !! ,<<<3

It’s not the easiest thing in the world to let other people live their own lives. I guess that’s what I get for being “the smart one” in my group of friends. Hopefully I’ll get over that someday. I’m working on it.