Tolerance. I used to think it was how much I could drink. My sponsor told me to look up words in the dictionary whose meaning I was not clear on. Nowadays, you can just google it, but we didn't have google back then. Tolerance is defined as the willingness to accept or respect opinions, behaviors, or identities that differ from your own. I saw another definition once that called it the readiness to allow others to think, feel, and act as they choose to. Readiness and willingness are almost synonyms. Concerning the behaviour of others, I might not like their behaviour, and the definition does not ask me to like it, just to accept and respect it.
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