Respect?

I can never understand and reconcile with people who finds pleasure in another’s misery.

My guideline for myself in life is simple. I am no saint, I commit many sins, does wrong all the time, ask God for forgiveness so many times I’m not sure he buys it anymore. But I tell myself always, that as much as I can and is conscious of, never do to others things that I do not want inflicted upon myself.

It’s such a theory so simple, I cannot reconcile when friends and closed ones tell me not everyone thinks the same or not everyone can understand!

Dear tells me I have too high expectations on myself and on others. But to me, such simple moral understanding is not a high expectation. It is just the lowest of basics, simplest of respect that everyone ought to have for each other as CREATURES living on the same planet!

I mean, self-centred each of us can be (I do not hesitate for a second that I myself too am guilty of), there must be a limit. Shouldn’t there be?