Wolf, actually, you fulfilled the mitzvah at its highest level. Doing a mitzvah without feeling, and only because G-d told you to do it, is NOT AT ALL what we should be striving for. We should do it because we truly FEEL it. G-d wants us to love fulfilling His commandments, and the truest form of that love is attained when we understand and appreciate the reasons behind the commandments. Not when we are simply told to do them, without thinking. When you are able to fulfill a mitzvah simply out of your basic sense of proper conduct, and not only because it is a commandment, you have attained that high level. G-d wants it to become second nature. We should all fulfill Kibud Av V’em the way you do.
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