I’m starting to feel like a punching bag. Are you?
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you believe, there’s someone out there wanting to hit you. And, if you have an ounce of empathy then the bruises effect you, even if you’re not the target.
So how do we heal our bruises from being punched all the time?
Bullies have the headlines and I’m trying to figure them out.
The phrase, “hurt people, hurt people”, offers some explanation, but it’s still a puzzle. The bullies hurt, their victims hurt, the families and friends connected with everyone who gets hit — Hurt!
What seeds can be planted to change the mindset?
“Treat others as you would want others to treat you”. Create this phrase into a public service commercial, or advertisement on buses, trains & airplanes? Present “how-to-be-kind” videos during half-time at a Sports game, the DMV, a Sports Bar, or wherever people wait in lines? They use to have “how-to-behave” videos for children & adults in the 50’s, maybe it’s time to bring them back.
Add a requirement to renewing your drivers license; a test on the social rules of the road, encouraging people to have better behavior?
I call it “The Dominos Effect”, as in; “One good decision leads to another good decision,”
One good behavior leads to more good behavior.
…just a thought for a bumper sticker.
