Golden Rule:
"So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them"For some reason I keep thinking about the GR and how it has backfired on me. What is this rule and does it really work.
I have always done unto others as I would want to be treated but here is how it panned out.
I was faithful and loyal to someone but that person was faithless and very very disloyal-
does it mean that if we are loyal to the other, that means we want them to be loyal to us, but there is the rub: Even if we treat others the way we want to be treated- it will not make them treat us back the same way.
The crucial thing is how can we make someone treat us the way we want to be treated. We cant do that merely by treating them the way we want them to treat us: we have to teach them what we are ok with.
When people treat us badly does this mean that they want us to treat them well or are they following the unGolden rule: treat others the opposite of the way you want them to treat you. So if they are mean, you are expected to treat them well.
In my humble opinion there are 4 kinds of people: People of the Golden Rule and People of the unGolden Rule.
Ungolden Rule people treat you bad but want you to treat them well.
Golden Rule people treat you good and want you to treat them good.
Golden Rulees: people who treat you good to your own good
Ungolden Rulees: People who treat you bad even if you treat them good
My fate has been in all my relationships it is always a Golden Rule: Ungolden Rulee...........
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Birding ( sort of) at WRL
So next week my kids and I will be busy with summer stuff. I decided to go to WRL for a ride. I wanted to see if I could do two rounds around the lake( 9 miles around).
Yesterday I went for a ride at WRL and there was debris in several spots across the trail. I hoped they had cleared the paths today. I left at 4 pm and am glad I did because halfway through the ride the rain came down.
I saw kingbirds at the start of my ride. They were large and yellow and looked more like flycatchers. I did not have my camera with me which as it turned out was good. The rain came down. All I saw was one lone great egret surrounded by mounds of trash. I know it was raining water but it seemed like it also rained trash down. There was serious stinking trash everywhere.
It was very sad and stinky. It was very dark and gray and the water looked very gray and dark. The think was though it cleared all the walkers and dog walkers on the trail so I was able to get away with saying 'on your left' only five times or so rather than the usual five thousand times that I did yesterday.
Anyway i finished only one round because the binoculars even in my bag were not too dry and I did not want to stay when it was so dark. Well surprise halfway home the sun came down and I could have finished another round.
Anyway not much in the way of birdwatching but I had a great time biking because it was so quiet and not crowded.
At sunset bay all the birds and ducks and geese came out of the water and were blocking my path. I would rather ducks block me than people with dogs on leashes. All in all I am glad I had a great time.
Yesterday I went for a ride at WRL and there was debris in several spots across the trail. I hoped they had cleared the paths today. I left at 4 pm and am glad I did because halfway through the ride the rain came down.
I saw kingbirds at the start of my ride. They were large and yellow and looked more like flycatchers. I did not have my camera with me which as it turned out was good. The rain came down. All I saw was one lone great egret surrounded by mounds of trash. I know it was raining water but it seemed like it also rained trash down. There was serious stinking trash everywhere.
It was very sad and stinky. It was very dark and gray and the water looked very gray and dark. The think was though it cleared all the walkers and dog walkers on the trail so I was able to get away with saying 'on your left' only five times or so rather than the usual five thousand times that I did yesterday.
Anyway i finished only one round because the binoculars even in my bag were not too dry and I did not want to stay when it was so dark. Well surprise halfway home the sun came down and I could have finished another round.
Anyway not much in the way of birdwatching but I had a great time biking because it was so quiet and not crowded.
At sunset bay all the birds and ducks and geese came out of the water and were blocking my path. I would rather ducks block me than people with dogs on leashes. All in all I am glad I had a great time.
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