The Golden Rule

I had to do a favor for my boss today. He asked me if I could go over to one of his friends house, and fix something. Not something that I particularly wanted to do, but like they say, one hand washes the other.

However that is not the point. The neighbourhood was VERY affluent. Every house was a multimillion dollar home. Every driveway had a very expensive car or 2, or 3. The house I had to go to was especially opulent. The inside was decked out very extavengantly. When the owner answered the door, he had this look of smug superiority. When he spoke to me he almost spit the words out as if it was that distasteful to speak to me, a person below his station. He didn't even offer me a glass of water after doing the job. The whole purpose of it was to make someone feel like an outsider, like you didn't belong. And it is true, I didn't belong there. This was not my world, nor would I ever want to be a part of one like it.

The whole situation left me angry. Not at the way I was treated, personally I could care less. No, I was angry at the environment, at the attitude. The elitist attitude that some people of wealth or privilege, or knowledge have. The sad thing it is these exact people that run our countries.

Now I am not saying that wealth is wrong. I am not one of those radical anti poverty, or anarchist protesters. To be honest, I like having nice things. But there is a limit. What good is wealth if you can not use it to help your fellow man? What use is it if you can't even be civil with him? It disgusts me that people can be like that, and that we do nothing about it. It is about time that we start. And we have to start by our own actions. We have to treat our fellow man as we would ourselves. Better, we should treat them better. We forget this in our daily lives, I know because I forget it too. If we start, than the world just may start to be more livable. As for the elitists, well they will have to change too, but if not of their own volition, than maybe they will have to be persuaded.