How do you Treat People?

Most of the time we all want people to treat us the way we would treat them but the truth of the matter is that, "how many of us treat people right?" To buttress my point, let me share this story. I went for a Make-Up job around late last month. On getting there, I met another makeup artist (let me explain, it was an event center so any celebrant was allowed to come with their own makeup artist).

So I walked up to this Make-Up artist,  introduced myself with all purity of heart as a fellow Make-up artist who would be working alongside with her at the event center. You need to see the way this lady reacted like I was a low-life coming to beg at the party. She did not even return my kind gesture in the least way by just telling me her name. Well, later on I saw that she came with a car of her own and she probably thought I was not as good as she was in that field because I did not come with a car but I mean, we could still meet some other day and my first impression about her was already messed up.

Another scenario a friend told me about happened when she went to buy foodstuffs about four streets to her street (in her area). She said she is not familiar with the people there, so, she normally pass by quietly each time she has a business there. This particular day, she visited a store on that street. On getting there, she discovered the money she wanted to use to buy foodstuffs had somehow disappeared. She then decided to trace the money back the way she had come. On getting to a house close by, she saw a woman who was sitting in front of the house with her kids and they were all looking at each other in a strange way but she didn't mind and kept moving towards the main market. Suddenly, she recollected that she did not pass through the main market on her way to the store so she decided to retrace her steps and continue her search for the money in the direction of the store.

Lo and behold!!! As she turned back, she saw the mother of the kids she saw earlier bend over the money with the intention of keeping it in her waistcoast. A lot of things immediately flipped through her mind in a matter of seconds ranging from the fact that the woman and her kids actually saw the money fall in the first place to the fact that she watched her suffer in frustration all the time she was looking for the money without saying a word. After listening to this story, the only thing that came to my mind was "how do we treat people? ", I mean,  "how has this woman taught her kids to treat people via her own behaviour?"

Treating people bad especially for no reason at all is simply wickedness (of the highest order). Why would we even choose to be bad and ill-mannered when we can be good and as sweet as a rose. It sure does not cause a thing to be good natured. Infact being bad is costlier. Look at someone who has friends that do not support and would never support any of his/her hustle. Support does not necessarily mean you have to pay all or part of the bills,  you just have to be positive, help do the promotion of that your friend in the little way you can, tell people about him or her, you never can tell, you might tell people that will tell people who would assist that your friend.

Do not be selfish!!! Remember you are helping yourself by helping your friend. Besides, if we all keep doing that for one another, everyone of us would surely get help in our various fields (it is a circular thing, it evolves round and round) plus the saying "one good turn deserves another" perfectly describes my point.

Be wise, treat people nicely...