Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated – Lou Holtz.
Wobbly times can bring out the worst in people.
Hoarders and xenophobes is how the worst broke through, followed closely by profit motivated price hikers and reckless rule breakers. As the days pass and lockdown has many of us glued to our computers, unkind keyboard warriors are now bordering on being boringly predictable.
Whilst it’s easy to want to throw up our hands or fight back, from a compassionate viewpoint, if they knew better, they would do better. Their quick automatic behaviours often come from
- not taking the time to get to know or consider the situation of another
- overly looking out for oneself
- bad experiences and conditioning
- being scared, suspicious and self-centred.
If you’re on the receiving end, just avoid and delete or report to admin.
Don’t blurt what might hurt. We are all in this together. Let’s express the best of ourselves.
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