What About ME?

With all the technology available to us today I'm amazed at how many people who are still wandering around lost. We have the men who don't know how to treat women and the women who don't know how they should be treated by men. Parent's who continue to have children but aren't really clear as to how they should raise them. There are the bosses who don't know how to treat their employees and vice versa. I can go on and on but you know exactly what I'm talking about here! We have so much dysfunction! So what can we do? What do we do? Lets start by working on ourselves, simply stop pointing the finger at others and check ourselves. I know that if we ALL would examine ourselves as thoroughly as we examine one another this world would be a much better place to be in. Now there are some things we aren't going to be able to avoid noticing, I'm not suggesting we come down with a bad case of tunnel vision but I am suggesting that we treat people with respect and keep our inability to be perfect in mind! If someone does something that doesn't sit well with you, pull them to the side the way you would want to be. Don't make a spectacle of them, it will only cause them to be defensive even if you're right-especially if you're right! We have so many double standards, do you know anyone who treats people exactly the way that they don't like to be treated? It's almost funny! I think we're all guilty of this at some time or another. You know that person who will cut in line but gets angry when somebody jumps in front of them? Or the person who asks a lot of questions but hates it when they're asked a lot of questions? The person who keeps everybody waiting but hates to be kept waiting? This is a big one, the person who's quick to criticize but gets upset when somebody makes a small suggestion to them? I'm making a conscious effort to show the same consideration for others that I want shown to me. We'll be surprised at how often we whip out our magnifying glass for everyone else and our blind fold for ourselves.