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In life we don’t always have the luxury of liking—liking things, or people, or jobs, or projects, or situations. Liking things is a luxury. You don’t like your boss, too bad. You don’t like your mother-in-law, tough titty. Just because you don’t like something or someone, doesn’t mean they have no value, or don’t deserve admiration or respect.
In my English classes over the years I haven’t liked all my students, and I know some of them didn’t like me, and that’s okay. I still respected them as people and they, for the most part, returned that respect. We still worked together for their education.
Liking someone or some things is a luxury; it isn’t anything more than that.
So you train with guys you don’t necessarily like—you still need to show them respect on and off the mat because even though you may be different in every way, and you might not see any commonalities, you do share one thing in common and that’s jiu-jitsu. Liking someone is a luxury not a necessity. Show respect and in return, receive it.
Good post man! I’m going to share this with some of the people I work with if you don’t mind. They need to learn that liking someone or something is a luxury, not a necessity.