The golden rule still works for me.....Treat people as you'd like to be treated.

The other piece of advice I have always followed was about the saying....."if your friends were jumping off a cliff, would you jump too?"~ my mom

It's really easy to be the kind of person who jumps in on what a mob is participating in. Weak people do that, latch onto the current trend, join with others in attention seeking behaviors, ganging up on people, not thinking for themselves about whether an issue is truly worth the fight, needing to be "in" at all costs, the mindless herd mentality, picking on people who are different.

What takes guts is to stand up for things you honestly believe in. To not join a mob when they are participating in unacceptable behaviors. To be nice to people who are not "in" and maybe not as easy to like. To be your own person regardless of what the mob around you or society is doing.


I think her goal was to keep me from dressing like a tramp and doing drugs but having learned to take stands at a young age, has helped me in my struggles to stand up for myself and others.I was raised in an extremely racially segregated place and dealt with mobs and gang mentality in the form of the KKK at a very early age. And standing up for what I know to be right was not always easy but, I could not have lived with myself had I just joined in with the crowd and become like them.

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If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
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