The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule has many meanings. For the purpose of this blog I am going to be going off of the Christian quote/saying "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

As a child people are taught to treat others like they want to be treated and everything in the world will be great. People are taught to believe that what they want and value should be the same as what everyone else wants and values but it is not that simple. People all want different things and the way that I would like to be treated varies greatly from someone who has different expectations, interpretations, goals and mainly desires in life.

Some people want you to be honest
Some people want you to be nice
Some people don't want to talk to strangers
I love strangers
Some people want to be taken care of
Some people want to be left alone
Some girls want guys to buy them flowers
Some girls care about things that matter
Some men want to protect
Some men just want to love

This creates a problem because many people believe they are acting in the best interest of everyone because people see things through their own perspective. Some people feel special when they receive phone calls so they might call people they care about without thinking about how much they hate the phone. It is both difficult and important to always reflect on what you are doing and not how it effects you or what you believe is correct but how it effects the person you are dealing with (specifically in one on one situations.)

So I throw out 2,000 years of Christianity and propose a new Golden Rule.

"Treat people how they want to be treated, not how you want to be treated"