Gazing upon a wild flower blossomed on a sidewalk in a large city, four people offered different feedback: "loneliness," "freedom," "tenacious vitality," and "hope."
Why did these four individuals each have four distinct opinions of the same object they came across at the same time and place? This is because each person's background, knowledge learned and input, and nature differs from those of another.
During the course of life, we meet people of different personality or ways of thinking. If we think first, however, of how they have walked their lives up to that particular point, nothing should be incomprehensible; in fact, we will find ourselves falling in love with them.
"Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves" (Philippians 2:3).
~ from Rev. Dr. Jaerock Lee's column "The Way" carried on The Kyunghyang Newspaper