Understanding and Accepting each other – a simple example :

I have a friend named Sanjai. He’s been married for two years now to a woman named Vidhya. His favourite colour is blue and his wife was not exactly fond of it. Her favourite colour was a leaf green and he hated that colour. Why they hated those colours is still a mystery to me. What they did was something quiet unique. Sanjai went to the park or a place which had a garden in it. And Vidhya decorated the house in blue. Bed spreads in blue, curtains in blue, etc… Eventually Sanjai started to get used to the colour leaf green and Vidhya got used to the colour blue. There is no compromise or adjustment in their behaviour. They both found ways to accept what the other liked. This is a conscious effort. Here we observe that instead of trying to change the other person they figured a way to like what the other liked. We would term this as understanding and accepting each other.

People in general fail to realise that what we need, is to understand one another and accept people as they are. The compromises that we make in life, eventually leads to build a frustration. When you want a person to compromise it indirectly implies that you want “him/her” - to do, to be or to think the way you want him/her to.