It happens too often that we do not learn to live in the community. This does not mean that we should live inside our neighbors' houses, no, not at all. The way to live harmoniously is not to be a nuisance to others, not to be rude to others, no one has the secret formula for the best coexistence but being considerate enough not to bother others in the same way we don't want to be bothered is one way to start.
It happens that most of us don't put ourselves in other people's shoes and like to listen to our favorite music at whatever volume we want and late at night, or just without knowing if we have sick people at home and the music is a scandal.
Nor do we collaborate with maintaining order, cleanliness, and cooperation in the community. I do not know why it is so hard to put ourselves in the place of others, or why we like to be aggressors in the lives of others.
When we go to a place where there are people in line to get in, we arrive late but we put ourselves in front of them, our time is more valuable than that of others.
And the worst thing is that we consider that we are more resourceful than others because I arrived last and passed everyone else and now, I am already shopping first. I did my shopping, paid for my groceries, and I was chatting with someone on the way. What was the priority I had?
It's not that our time is busier than everyone else's it's that we want to prove to everyone that we are smarter and more resourceful by riding roughshod over everyone else's rights.
If we fall into such procedures someone else will do it next time too, because they can do it too and this way of being so disrespectful ends up being a habit in the community.
In front of many, we look like inconsiderate and disrespectful people and in front of others, we are ingenious for being clever and doing our will without respecting the rules.
It saddens me to see how in a community we praise those who do all kinds of disrespect to the neighbors and no one can make them aware of how bad they do. When we learn to do good without being corrected, to respect others without the need to be seen in public doing the right thing, then we will be growing as people and as a community.
These days I read how in a city in a country of the world some people have some artisan food stalls and place their handicrafts on tables in the mornings, on the side of the road and after placing them with their respective prices they leave them there and, in the afternoon, they pass by collecting their tables and the money that people have paid for the products they have taken.
Do you think that in your country or your city you can do this and trust the buyers? In my country, this is not possible.
In another country I read how people take a ticket to park and pay for the time they will be there, nobody attends them. They just pass by, take the ticket, and pay, and then at the end of their hours, they leave without disturbing or exceeding their time.
I could not do this in my country either. We will always try to leave without paying, as long as in our mind we are not honest we will never find honest possibilities of how to be a good citizen who does not disturb the neighbor, who does not disturb others, and who is considerate of the rules.
Being honest is a matter of ourselves, cultivating our affections and rejecting defects is a matter of making us better people for ourselves, regardless of others.
What do you think about it, wouldn't you like to live in cities like this, where you trust each other? I would like to!
@gertu from Venezuela to the world.
