Love your Neighbour as you love yourself - Part II

So – a while ago I wrote a blog about “Love your Money as yourself” – and also “Love your Neighbour as you love yourself”.

What's interesting about this – is this seems to be a central theme that I see in my surroundings.

About a week or two ago – I was waiting for my bus in the rain. All these people were driving by in their cars. For the most part, 1 person per car. Now – why can't people be more friendly and offer people rides who are waiting for the bus?

Ok – maybe it's not raining today, but when you take in the Humidex factory we're probably talking 40+ degrees(Celcius) in the sun. Again – why aren't people driving by offering people rides?

The whole - “Love your neighbour as yourself” thing – stems from put yourself in the other person's shoes, and would you want to be there? If there answer is “No” - then it's a responsibility of each and every one of us to offer to help that person.

What this simply proves is that deep down inside us all – we're selfish. The reason you probably bought the car was so that you could get to work and get back home sooner. This in turn would allow you to spend more time with your family – or getting time to watch that game or TV show before the kids get home, or whatever other reason there may be.

Have you ever pondered if the person waiting for their bus is also a family person? That they too would love to get home and do all those things?

“Well, if I do all those things – I'm not going to have the time I had before to do all the things I used to do.” Now, I didn't say it would be easy, but would you feel better about yourself? Knowing you helped someone get home to their family sooner?

“Oh – but I'll be late for work” - ok, well did you not used to get up at 5:30am to catch the bus? But since purchasing the car you now roll out of bed at 6:30 – 7:00?

There's a line from a movie called Spiderman with Toby McGuire.

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     - With Great Power, comes great responsibility -

The more you have, the more you should be able to give. Now – don't think it just ends at cars.

Did you buy that new big screen TV last week or last month? Have you invited people over for a movie night yet?

Did you recently buy a big huge 4 bedroom house? How many of those rooms are sitting empty at this time? Could you help a friend out by renting out a room to him, or charging him for room and board?

The point is – you can't say that you love your neighbour as yourself, if you're not giving what you currently have in excess to other people.

This is how the human race will succeed. Ultimately – we need to take the “love your neighbour as yourself” quote – and live it out.