Desde hace unos días que vengo haciendo limpia en mi antiguo cuarto, es decir, mi cuarto en Monterrey. Este texto lo encontré alguna vez en un libro hace mucho tiempo, parte de las cosas que siempre digo que alguna vez le encontrare uso.
No creí que una vez mas lo fuera a usar para mi, pero una experiencia reciente me obligo a leerlo, y leerlo, y leerlo una vez mas…
So I was watching this episode of How I Met Your Mother the other day… granted I was not in the best mood, and watching sitcoms while you’re hurt, sad, angry or depressed, well, kind of takes away the enjoyment of it all. I still watched it anyways… hell I needed the distraction.
This episode in particular talks about something that was made up, yet for me at the moment made a lot of sense… still does actually.
This character Ted wants to date his regular doctor, and gets disapproved by his friends. The explanation?? The Platinum Rule. Although taken on purpose out of context, one of his friends (Barney) mentions the Golden Rule, which is commonly known as “Do onto to others as they would do onto you.”. Barney’s take on it is “Love thy neighbor,” which would lead into his Platinum Rule as “Never ever, ever, ever ‘love’ thy neighbor.”
His point came to be that you should never date someone seen on a regular basis like co-workers, neighbors, group friends (Now he tells me), etc. So he says that relationships like that are doomed to fail and lead to never-ending suffering as they see each other almost every day.