I Hope There Still Are Good People In This World
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It seems more and more lately I have either witness first hand or have heard from my spouse or friends about the things people do lately that just seem plain wrong. Either society is just more corrupt and morally bankrupt now than ever, or it was just much more hidden from the public and therefore not as widely put on display previously.
Examples of this are how people try to save a dollar at a local sandwich restaurant. I mean I understand people are economically tight, but when you order something on the menu that costs $5, and you try to sub out meat for more expensive meat and expect the price to be the same $5 dollars, this is trying to milk the system. Customer trying to order a club sandwich and saying, make it all roast beef instead, it cannot be called a club sandwich. Secondly, people will order food then eat 3/4 of it and complain something was wrong when they are at the last bite, then restaurant policies would refund or make a replacement. Customer basically milks 2 meals for the price of one.
People who will report stolen items that they never owned to police after a house robbery, people who claim to do something that they have never done but witnessed someone else do so they can accurately describe and fool people to believe they did it. Too many people take credit for someone else’s good deeds.
I genuinely believe in my core I am a good, kind hearted person. I try to live that way, I try to be an optimist and see the glass as half full and try to see the good in all people and not judge a book by its cover. However, I am guilty of my own personal bad behaviors, rudeness at times, lying, occasional theft (like you haven’t stolen office supplies).
To keep my spirits up and my attitude positive, I have taken a new policy before bed every night. I started this a few months ago. Before going to sleep I try and reflect and thing of at least 3 things positive in my life that happened that day. I want my last thoughts before sleep to be of some good things that happened, something pleasant. Simple stuff like my son telling me how much he loves playing with me, or seeing my wife smile when I tell a joke.
Sometimes it helps me have good dreams and wake up in a better spirit, other times it doesn’t seem to help much, but I still like reflecting.
Just some of my insight.
-Justin Germino
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I try to find the good in people by default. It’s how I’m wired. I’m a good person, and therefore believe everyone should be and is to some extent…I ‘expect’ it. This theory has led to big disappointments, as not everyone is ‘good’ (of course).
What a great attitude, and idea to do before bed! Maybe if we all tried this and had this same attitude, we’d all wake feeling better about our lives in general, ergo people trying to ‘better’ themselves!
Some people are very sneaky, sly, nervy and just plain selfish. I hate when people take advantage of things and make things worse for everyone else as a result. There are still many good people in the world too though. Only God can change people’s hearts and until that happens, there will always be evil and people doing bad things.
I like you bedtime practice of thinking back over your day and focusing on the good things. That’s a wonderful thing to do.
I am generally an optimist and see good in people, but I like everyone else can fall into my mental ruts where I feel depressed angry and upset at the world and people.
People need to pick a model on how they want to be and who they want to be perceived as and try to act within that model.
They say if you fake acting a certain way long enough, you eventually become partially that way, so if even if you are a pessimist by nature, if you act optimistic on purpose, give people benefit of the doubt, treat people kindly even if you don’t want to, eventually it will become second nature and your personality shifts that way.
What a great way to help get out of the ruts that we all get into. Even good people sometimes do bad things.
Of course good people do bad things, it is when you know they are bad, and feel bad that you have done them, have regret, remorse and want to try and become a better person which makes you good.
People who don’t care, have no interest in self improvement are changing are the ones who have given up or aren’t good people.
People who don’t know good or bad, can either just be really ignorant or have not been given a good moral compass, so they might not be bad people, just need to find a moral compass for guidelines, or they might be sociopathic.
I’m an optimist and I believe there are many more decent, good people out there than not but they don’t make the news so we hear about the negative.
I do the same as you do but I start my mornings by reflecting on all that is wonderful in my life. I’ve been doing it for more years than I care to count and it helps to keep me on track.
I think it’s wonderful you focus on the positive.
Believe me I try, but it ain’t easy sometimes.
I agree with you dragonblogger…
Justin, you’ve highlighted on an important issue. I sometimes think that good people have gone with the wind however I don’t believe in generalizing. The problem is simply that the lifestyle we are living today -regardless the society- keep on rushing people to chase opportunities even if they stepped over other people!
Wild Wild World, isn’t it? But good people are still there though they are like diamonds; rare to find!
We should all pay it forward, remember to treat others not how “we would like to be treated” but how we would like the ones we love to be treated. There is too much hate and distrust in this world.
The title of your Post and what followed immediately caught my eye.
“It seems more and more lately I have either witness first hand or have heard from my spouse or friends about the things people do lately that just seem plain wrong. Either society is just more corrupt and morally bankrupt now than ever, or it was just much more hidden from the public and therefore not as widely put on display previously.”
I read your entire Article, and what came to my mind in an instant was Indonesia. I travel to Indonesia once a month to do a small bit of humanitarian work amongst the destitute.
Your observations are a pale comparison to the moral bankruptcy in Indonesia. The list if put on paper would over-spill the length of a roll of toilet paper.
Despite whatever good intentions and belief that one may have towards his fellow men, a short stay in Indonesia would change that abruptly.
Thanks for that comment about indonesia, people prey upon the desperate. People who make false claims about people being lost in 9/11, just to collect insurance? People who claim to have lost a house to Katrina just to collect?
It is worse in other countries too, corruption and moral bankrupcy is everywhere. Mostly though, kids become corrupt when they lack guidance and models of behavior, so they grow up not knowing better and acting the same way. There are sociopaths and people who will be evil no matter what, but morality is taught, not instinctual.