Rules for Human Communications

The personal communications often leave some uncertainty in meanings, because it often involves compositions vague in meanings with emotion or sentiment laid underneath. What has been said or written could also be interpreted quite differently, depending on how the recipient was feeling and how the circumstances of any relevant, or irrelevant, issues surrounding were for the person at the time of the communication.

And it is not easy to place yourself in someone else’s shoes either, especially when the mind of the other do not operate in a mutual manner as one’s own.

Here is a few quotes that might help resolving the issues a bit:


“THE GOLDEN RULE

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”

— George Bernard Shaw 1903.


Succinctly put it that way, except the last one which is a paradoxical loop.

In addition,

if you are happened to be a stubborn, awkward person who is hardly capable of bending opinions, attitudes and beliefs in order to suite yourself to those around you, such misfits may not give up hopes because:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— GB Shaw 1903.

though only when the others are persuaded to follow the pursuits, either now or later on.