There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.