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ANITFREEZE The name of my country is Antifreeze. The people of Antifreeze are tall, muscular and tan, with dark hair and brown eyes. The Antifreezians are the nicest group of people you will ever meet. It is always sunny where they live. You may think that this is due to the weather, but the real reason for the sunshine is the people themsleves. The Antifreezians are always smiling, they always greet eachother with kind words and always dress in bright colors. Imagine a whole nation where everyone is comparable to Willy Wonka. It is all sunshine and candy, puppies and hugs. Whenever someone is feeling blue, all the people of the land come together to brighten their day. After all there will be no frigidness here in the beautiful country of Antifreeze. The Antifreezian's lives are pretty simple. Their jobs are not stressful or irrelevant. Everyone loves their job, or at least they pretend they do. It is always warm, so they are always dressed in summer wear, complete with flip flops three hundred and sixty five days of the year. When I vacationed there, the atmosphere reminded me of The Harry Truman Show; the movie with Jim Carrey in which his whole life is a set up. Everyone is pretending to live there, so everything is always perfect and people are always overly nice. It truly takes a special person to live there; after a while I became overly annoyed with the happy Antifreezians. The poor chaps had no problems and I couldn't handle it. They tried to cheer me up as I got colder, but it was of no use. I decided to leave the happy land of Antifreeze and let them enjoy their sunshine in peace.  SIMPLE RULE A simple rule I learned as a child is famously known as the Golden Rule; treat others as you'd like to be treated. It is easy to say, but not so easy to do. If you don't want people to pick on you for your mistakes, it is best that you don't laugh when other people mess up. If you cry when people call you names, it is best that you don't give other people horrid nicknames. If you want people to help you when you have nothing, it is best that you don't ignore the needy. This is the simple rule; give people the respect that you would like in return. The reason for the rule is quite apparent: if everyone treats people the way they wanted to be treated, everyone will be treated well. If I always treat people nicely, and you always treat people nicely, then everyone is happy. Although this rule is broken quite often, there are no exceptions to the rule. You should always treat others as you would like to be treated. This means that you must stand in other people's shoes to see where they are coming from, so as to not misjudge them. Even when people wrong you, you should forgive them, because you would want forgiveness, wouldn't you? There is no official punishment for people who break this rule. You don't get fined or arrested. However, if you always treat people like animals, if you never respect anyone else, your life will be miserable. If you are a jerk, chances are that people will treat you like one, and your life will not be a happy one. This is why obeying this rule is imperative to your health and happiness.