Treat People The Way You Want To Be Treated

Treat people the way you want to be treated. We've been taught that for as long as we can remember. From our parents, teachers, books, tv and anywhere else you can think of. It baiscally means that if you want someone to respect you then you have to respect them too. You cant treat someone bad and then expect them to do you favors. So why is it that even though people drill this into our brains that some people still dont get it.

I guess it can be called some peoples hamartia that they think that they can do things to people that not even their own parents would do to them. The thing is that sometimes they dont even realize that they have done something wrong. To them it was something normal or even funny and if the person they did it to gets angry then they think that the person is just overreacting. Its not an overreaction. Its the fact that they just did something to you that no one has ever done before. Something that even your own parents refused to do to you and warned you to never let someone else even try to do to you.

Sometimes the person who hurt you will actually realize that what they did was wrong. They will apologize and say that they never meant to hurt you or disrespect you. Even though you may say that you forgive them, the damage is already done. At that point you have lost most if not all respect for that person. Now everytime that you see them, the only thing that you are going to be able to think about is what they did. You know that you're never going to offer to help that person with anything and try to associate with that person as little as possible. If they didnt want to be treated like this then they should've never disrespected you in the first place.