The Golden Rule

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is the Golden Rule for a reason. It's meant for you to look inside yourself, and then love others and therefore treat them, as you do yourself. Because hopefully, you love yourself (to an extent) and then treat others accordingly. 

You have to wonder about those people with low self esteem issues.

And if you wonder about those people, you have to really wonder about those people who love themselves too much.  

It astounds me how people can treat themselves like gold, and be so passionate about only the things that they are interested in, and then turn around and treat others like they shouldn't even exist.

How does that even work? 

I get so frustrated when I find myself being treated poorly by others. Especially by passionate people. Because if you think about it, the people who are truly passionate should be the ones that treat people well. But a lot of the time, they aren't. They're too focused in themselves that when they do take a look at others, they only catch the things that they perceive to be negative. Then they take the quickest opportunity to call them out on their 'negative actions'. 

What bugs me even more, is when the I have been nothing but supportive towards someone, and they turn around and treat me like crap. That makes me so mad. Don't judge me when I have been nothing but there for you. 
 

It seems to me that we're losing touch of the basics. We're too focused on culture, the media, and even education. Things like education are important, but they can get in the way of the basic things of life. Not everyone in the world is blessed with the ability to become educated (I know this doesn't seem like a blessing, but it really is); and those people are relying on each other to get through every day. I can't imagine that people in poor countries treat their close friends like a pile of garbage. A lot of times, they're surrounded by so much death, they don't even think about saying something unkind to their neighbor. 

I know I may have used an extreme example here, but I feel like I need to get this point across. It's so hard to fully understand how blessed we are and how good we have it, that we forget about the basics of life. Like our family and friends. The people in our lives that are there for us when the rest of the world isn't. Don't forget about those people. They're just as important as you are.


My goal? To be as kind to people as possible. Even those people who are jerks to me. Why? It's what God wants. For those of you who read the blog and don't believe in God, try to be kind to people anyway. Think before you speak. What goes around comes around, and things you say and do will get back to you one way or another.