I’m always amazed how the miserableness of World News is forgotten and not mentioned the minute sporting events dominate the TV, be it the Commonwealth Games or the latest World Cup. People celebrate (or commiserate) with each other and effort is made to support their chosen teams. Happiness reigns supreme for a couple of weeks, until it’s all over for another 4 years.

I’ve brought my daughter up (now 19) to do at least one “act of kindness” a day. We’ve abbreviated it to AOK and we share our AOK’s with each other. Janette’s article is so right, it makes us feel good. Therefore, I sometimes ask myself whether it could be misconstrued as a “selfish” AOK because it’s benefitting us too!
We live by the “Golden Rule” to “treat others how you would like to be treated”. However, when my daughter was at Primary School she was asked by a visiting Vicar if anyone knew what the “Silver Rule” was? and if not, to research it. It was a good research as I’d never heard of this Silver Rule and whether indeed there was one. There is! Interestingly it is “to treat others how you think they would like to be treated”. Now that one is very much open to misinterpretation so, for now, we’ll still continue to use the Golden Rule with consideration of the Silver Rule doing at least one AOK 🙂