How I Treat Others

Here I am at another day of work, with 1 hour left.  As I have been sitting here thinking of what I could write on my blog, lots of things seemed to connect.  I have come across a lot of media that has really made me think of how we affect other people by how we treat them.  I will just list the top 3 that come to mind.

The first thing that makes me think of this is a book I read called The Message.  It's about a man who goes into a coma for a few weeks, and during that time he goes to the Spirit World a couple of times where he is taught about the afterlife and what we can do now to prepare for the afterlife.  The main part of his "message" to us still living is service.  Service to God and others is something we need to practice doing here on Earth because it is all we do in the after life on Earth.  I really thought about how I really need work on this more, and what I can do to improve.

The second thing is another book, 13 Reasons Why.  This book is a fiction book (but it still made me think) about a girl, who commits suicide, and she creates these tapes for 13 people, giving reasons for each person on how they played a part in her decision to commit suicide.  Some of the things the people do in the book are a little farfetched (I guess there are some people in the world that could do the things she described, but I am a little sheltered so part of me thinks it's a little crazy), but there are little things that can and do affect people, even if you don't notice how your actions/words affect them.

The last thing is something I saw on the news a couple of months ago.  I saw that there was a bus monitor that was being bullied by 7th grade boys and how people were raising money for her to go on a nice vacation.  The news mentioned how one of the kids on the bus recorded the boys harassing the bus monitor on a cell phone and posted the video on YouTube. It's a 10 minute video, and I decided to watch some last night, but I was only like 2 minutes in till I started bawling and couldn't watch it anymore (haha good thing Robert wasn't home.  How embarrassing!).  In my mind the whole time I was thinking: "How the heck can people treat others like this?", when in reality, I do things like this.  I don't make rude remarks about others in front of their faces (at least not intentionally...), but it is just as bad behind their backs. I have a bad habit of making fun of people on TV (like on the Bachelor and other shows like that), and I shouldn't.

So how have I resolved to improve on how I treat others and to love them no matter what?  It all goes back to the first thing: The Message.  When you serve others, you learn to love them unconditionally.  When the author of The Message (I can't remember his name) first entered Spirit Paradise, he could feel not only peace, but love emanating from the other spirits because all they did was serve one another and those down here on earth.