NEIGHBORS
“The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.”
“The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a drunk I said cruel things about other people. My prejudices hid my fears and insecurities. I condemned in others what I saw in myself. I deflected attention from me by the name-calling others: sick manipulations. “Neighbour” was only a word that I could spell and interpret, useful for religious homilies or pretentious innuendoes but not something I really experienced.
Today I am able to be the “good neighbour” to many people, known and unknown. My recovery has brought people into my life. Relationships mean something; friends are important; the world is one. Black, Asian, Hispanic — all add a variety to my life that enable me to get in touch with buried feelings of my “difference”. In the stranger I discover something of myself; the foreigner has become both friend and neighbour.
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