The size of people varies according to the different degrees how they deal with us. The people are enormous for us, when they speak about what they read and lived, what they have learned and they share it with us, when they treat us with love and respect, when they look in our eyes and give us a big smile, there is no space for greed, envy or competition.

They are small for us when they only think about themselves, when they behave in a little gentle way, when they fail  exactly when they should  show what is more important between two people: the friendship, respect, affection, devotion or even love.

People become a giant for us when they are interested  in our lives, how we feel, how they may help us, when they look for alternatives for our growth, when they dream together with us, and they become smaller when they deviate towards individualism.

People become bigger when they forgive easily, when they surprise us with a simple gesture of kindness, when they put themselves in others’ place, when they act not in agreement with what they expect from us, but in agreement with what we expect from them, as a simple advice, without judgment or criticism, they show us a new direction, like a flashlight. They become smaller when they let themselves rule by clichés behaviors, as the immoderation, the carelessness with others and petty attitudes.

Some people may seem lofty or insignificant within a relationship, they can grow or decrease in a short space of time, on days, on weeks or in months, some of them in hours.

A disappointment can reduce the size or measure of a love that seemed to be so big. An absence can increase the size of a love that seemed to be tiny, weak, hopeless… It is very difficult to live together with people’s elasticity: people can stretch or shrink to our eyes. Our judgments are not made through centimeters and meters, but by actions and reactions,  expectations and frustrations. A person is unique when they give their hands and when they retract them unexpectedly they become a simple and useless vessel in this world ruled by the pettiness of the power and money.  Kindness, compassion and solidarity brings us closer to divinity, conditional love differs us from irrational beings. Charity keeps us near to God.

Ignorance, arrogance and selfishness unify the insignificant ones. It is not about the height, nor the weight, either the muscles that turn people into big and extraordinary human beings, but it is their sensibility without size, the ability to live in community and deal with diversity in a fair and equal manner… ❤