My father once said, “Treat other people the way you want to be treated.”
My dad has told me that since before I knew how I wanted to be treated.
I hate to make a point with math, but it seems logical to treat other people the way you want to be treated, because there’s only one of you, and 7 billion of them. So if you’re treating other people how they want to be treated. That’s a lot of happy or comfortable people.
Conversely (I love using that word), if you’re out to treat yourself the way you want to be treated, then you’re only going to make one person “happy or comfortable”. I added my little comfortable qualifier because people aren’t always happy, even if you treat them the way they want to be treated. Similarly, even if you treat yourself the way you want to be treated, you may not be happy. We’ve all heard that story, a successful person, who sacrificed his friends and family to get to where he/she wanted to go.