GOLDEN RULE.

Biblically, ‘love your neighbour as thyself’ is said to be the most important law but philosophers have proposed a rule which is perceived as golden and it is ‘do unto others what you will have them do unto you’.

In life, we frown when we are at the receiving end of some actions but not when we dish them out. Each and everyday, we do things to others that make them clench their fists and gnash their teeth in agony. Sometimes, they retaliate, other times; they do not owing to our perceived superior placement.

Have we ever thought of what life will be if we treat others the way we would want to be treated if roles were swapped? Most humans if not all are hedonists (pleasure seekers), thus, they would not want to embrace pain or forms of it.

Someone would owe others gladly but when he is indebted to, he will go around swearing and cursing bitterly. I ask why would you owe or defiantly refuse paying if you cannot stand being owed?

To a person paying assailants to hunt down another for whatever reason, I put it to you that how would you feel if you are the receiving end of that fatal coup de grace. No matter how rich you are, there is someone richer who can afford to pay hoodlums to cut you down.

There are some I call ‘smooth operators’. They boast about snatching others partners, sleeping with the spouses of others, ruining relationships that took long to nurture and build. To you smooth operators, how would you feel if someone else does exactly the same thing to you? You find your partner in the warm embrace of another! It is pertinent to note that no matter what your best is, it can be bettered. Be it good or evil. If you are such a good orator and feels that your tongue can cause any lady to fall, I say someday a better orator will sweep your lady off her feet and cause you eternal emotional pain. Always know that your best is someone else’s beginning and your revelation is another’s genesis.

The golden rule though simple, let everyone observe it and the world will be an eldorado.