Feb 21, 2006

Do unto others as u want them to do unto u...

i've heard this upteem number of times... especially from my brother when i don't do something he asks for... he says this and then adds on saying... is this what u want me to do when u ask me for a favor ??? pretty taunting thing to say...

it makes me wonder one thing... if i continue to be good to a mean person cos i want the other person to be nice to me, then at some stage in life the mean person shud turn around n be nice to me... is that rite... ???

well, let's look at it from the mean person's end.... since he is being mean to me... he expects me to be mean to me... so it is not wrong if i am mean to the person... is that rite... ???

hmmm... now did i just get myself into a potential deadlock situation here ??? i'll be deadlocked if the meanie knos "do unto others..." funda... If he doesn't, then i've a choice to be nice to him or bug him back...

all this set aside... i came across a wonderful counter phrase that i've used since the time i found it... it goes like this... "Do not do unto others as u want them to do unto u, cos he mite not want the same things as u do"... this is a funda i live by these days...

1 comment:

Priya Balaji said...

Good one bin...But i guess...sometimes, we should do things to others that we feel right and good, even if they turn out mean...since this gives u a little satisfaction and u won't have a chance to feel guilty...