It's all about me!

A while back somebody said that we wouldn’t be concerned about what other people think of us, if we really understood how much them do.

Pulling into a parking spot at the grocery store today there was a cart in the middle of a prime parking spot. If I wanted to park there, I would have had to get out of the car and move the cart before I could claim that spot. It appeared that someone loaded their purchases in their car and left the cart in the other parking space, avoiding rolling it across the lane into the cart corral. They could have done it to be mean, but I think that it was more a matter of not considering those that would come after them. They had gotten what they needed, What more was to be considered?

I find it ironic that all of us fail to consider the needs of others, yet at the same time we are starving to have others consider our needs.

It boils down to this simple truth. Either we think of others or we make it all about ourselves with each act we do, regardless of how insignificant. The grocery cart was not a big deal. The leaders of Enron, Skilling and Lay, by bilking people out of life savings and retirement funds was a huge deal. At the end of the day however, it is the same spirit, just on a different scale. We all fail to realize the needs of others.

So much could be avoided by following the words of Jesus when he said that we should treat others as we want to be treated.