LOVE WITHOUT OBSTACLES

How far does a prejudice against the familiar influence you? Do you regularly treat dinner guests better than the people who live with you? Are you regularly late for appointments made with intimated, and seldom late when you’ve made an appointment with a stranger? Do you fawn in front of professional men, and excuse them after they’ve kept you waiting for hours, and, in contrast, complain when someone you know keeps you waiting even a few minutes? If so, like millions, you are assuming, without considering the matter, which the time of people you don’t know is more important than that of people you do, and your discriminatory treatment is renewing that assumption. There is nothing more precious than time, and yet perhaps the majority of us discriminate against the people closest to us when it comes to being considerate about time.