In one corner of the city there was a newspaper vendor, especially known for his rude way of treating his clientele. However, one of his client treated the diariero with obvious courtesy, to the point that he was once asked why he was so kind to an antisocial men. And the respectable client answered: "And why should I allow his rudeness to infect me too?" What a successful concept of life and human relationships!
How often we usually think that it is right to act with others as they work with us. And so, instead of telling ourselves how we are going to behave in life, it is the others who determine our attitudes and reactions. But is this a sensible way to live and live together? If the other does not proceed correctly, and we dislike his behavior, why should we be as clumsy as he? An evil is not annulled with another evil. On the contrary, it is magnified without profit for anyone, and for direct damages of whoever commits it.
The law of selfishness tells us that we must pay others with the same wickedness with which they treat us. But the well-known "golden rule" tells us that everything we want others to do with us, we must do the same with them, how different a concept from the other!
The law of love, or "golden rule" taught by Jesus Christ as the noblest and highest standard to treat others. His few words contrast with the breadth of their meaning. It is a rule that drives us to be with others as we would like them to be with us. Do we like our fellow human beings to be kind, sincere, respectful and helpful to us? Well, we must be the same with them, but without waiting for them to take the first step.
