The most influential quote on me
Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.
——Confucius
I am most familiar with this sentence in the entire "Analects of Confucius", and I even recite it silently several times from time to time. It has subconsciously become my guiding principle - treat others as you treat yourself.
In the chaos after a sports meeting, I often pick up the wrong chair. It would be fine if that chair was as good as the previous one, but the ones I pick up are often leftovers from others. Then I saw the chair at the same table, oh! good. The stability is no worse than before. I really want to do a "civet cat for prince" before she comes back. But "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you." I am already very unhappy when something like this happens to me, so how can I let others suffer the same misfortune as me? So "If I don't go to hell, who will?" Let me feel aggrieved.
I often encounter such strange and annoying people in life. He would lose his temper for no apparent reason, ignore me, glare at me or mutter something very "cynical" to me. At this time, I wanted to point at his nose and tell him, "I'm not your father, and I'm not your son. Don't pretend to be an uncle in front of me from now on!" But "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you." No one is unhappy. What time? Maybe he was just upset for a moment and didn't like anyone, and what he said didn't mean anything to me. If one day I was robbed of a compliment in public, the feeling of running into obstacles would make me feel cold. So I tolerate him, forgive him, and let him go, and we will get along more harmoniously in the future, just because he will definitely be grateful to me when he understands it later.
I am often asked some very frustrating questions. There are always students who fall asleep in class and don’t even know the most basic concepts but want to make up for what they didn’t hear after class. I wanted to laugh at him for being stupid and lazy and delaying my study by not studying hard. But I have also been ridiculed by "top students" who are smart, diligent, but cold as ice. Even me, who is so cheeky and smiles happily all day long, would not be used to hearing such words, let alone others? So I continued to carry forward my "eight-tooth smile policy" and just remind him to listen carefully in class.
When I hear someone say bad things about my friends; when I see someone in need of help but is treated as a mural by others; when..., "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you" They all jump out and beat me, and they warn me to treat others as well as I treat myself.