How To Treat Others?

Once upon a time, I knew to Treat Others with Respect.  In modern days from learning and  personal experience, It changed to; Treat others the way they like to be treated?    It is just easy to say or do what we like and ignore others by simply miss understanding, miss judging  and/or just being careless about what others think, do or feel?

Thanks to social media, I  am linked to hundreds of friends and few groups/networks and I notice many people are not interested in any cause or issue that may be of concern to others around them.   In the same way many of these friends notice what I am interested in & what causes are close to my heart?   

Somehow, they don't understand my issues and causes such as Humanity and Poverty, feel uncomfortable about it and  a tiny minority even stop communicating with me.   I understand them, the path they want to take in life and this is entirely their choice but what amazes me is that many of these people I considered friends or at least friendly to have such a lack of understanding about the issues that concerns me and the causes I support.

Fair enough,  people have their own problems to deal with,  no time to care for or nerves to cope with the causes of other friends who are trying to bring a positive change or an improvement through advocacy, humanitarian work and/or activism for social change.

Unfortunately,  In this world there are many of us who do not care for/or are not interested in what is going on around them?  They are happy to go with the flow and I am happy for them.   

So I shut them out the way they try to shut me out and treat them the way they treat me.

I have chosen my path and will not give up, doing my little bit for the world to be a better place. I do  not want to live for just a few selfish "friends" but I want to be a part of  all selfless activists and advocates who care and share.