Friday, June 12, 2015

June 12: Writing Prompt #163-You’ve Got the Power

You have the power to enact a single law. What would it be?
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12
Okay, not a traditional law, but I’d like to enact a law sort of along the lines of the Good Samaritan Law. Treat others the way you want to be treated.  With the Good Samaritan Law, you promise to provide first aid help only within your knowledge and training to do so, and if you do so, you are protected from anyone suing you for providing care to them when they may or may not have been able to tell you they wanted help. 
The “Do Unto Others” law would require people to “walk a day in your shoes” or consider the other’s perspective before passing judgment or responding in a negative manner toward people.  I know it could never really be enforced, but maybe it would at least get people thinking. From driving on the interstate to shopping at the grocery store, many people today have grown so self-centered, they do not even see who they are about to run over. 

We do have the power, the power to start and end the day in positivity or end it with a selfish, complaining attitude.  I choose the former over the later!

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