The Way We Think

How often has it happened when you were on a bus on your way to office or school during rush hour and people were trying to get onto the bus, pushing and stepping over others? How irritated do you remember being. "What the hell man!!! The bus is already packed. Don't you see that there is no room for you to stand? You are making others in the bus suffer. Why don't you try the next bus? Hey conductor, why the hell are you letting people get on when you see that there is no room in the bus", you must have said. "What stupid people....how pathetic", you must have thought. But, have you ever realized that if you were on the other end, trying to get onto a bus loaded with passengers in rush hour, you would think that it’s your birth right to get on that bus. Do you care about how inconvenient it would be for the people on the bus, or that you are pushing them and stamping on their feet and trying to justify your urgency to get on that bus. NAAAAAA!!! You don't. Does that mean that you just care about yourself and it’s easier to preach than to practice?? The fact is that everyone wants to make situations work in their favor and to their advantage. It is difficult to think about those people on the bus because they are not related to you or a part of your objective at that point of time. You can’t empathize with then because your priorities outweigh theirs (In your context i.e.). You can find this being true in several other daily occurrences in your life. Try to think and find out other instances when you think you might have done something similar. If you do it on a regular basis more than 6 times a day then you really need to work on your people skills and start giving respect to what others feel. A stone hitting you will have the same effect on others, if it hits them. So you and I should never be an exception to laws and reactions which are universally applicable and the same for everyone.