People
The other day, I had taken the red-eye from San Diego to Boston, and had to wait in the train station for a couple hours. I decided to get some breakfast at the McDonald's. After the lady handed me my change back, I accidentally tipped my open wallet.. allowing tons of saved up coins to fall, spreading themselves all over the dirty north station floor. I looked at the lady behind the counter, laughed and said, "typical". She laughed back, and continued working. I bent over to the floor, and began picking the coins up one by one. After a sleepless night flight that made me feel so nauseas that I threw up when I landed.. picking these coins up was the last thing I wanted to do. Then all of a sudden, I heard a voice say, "Don't worry, I'll help you with those.." It was the greatest feeling in the world. This complete stranger stopped to help ME pick coins off the dirty floor. Not only that, but after we had finished, and I thanked him, he said, "I hope you have a nice day." Then he smiled and walked away.
People can be horrible, malicious, and completely unsympathetic sometimes. They can lie, cheat, steal, and murder. But when it comes down to it, I believe that people ARE inherently good. It is when we come across evil in our day to day lives that we become discouraged with the world around us, and we become apathetic and stop caring about others. But people like this man who will stop to help a stranger pick coins off a floor even if they are rushing to catch a train.. these are the type of people that give me hope. There may be a lot of bad in this world, and it's so hard to ignore that. But I think it's really important to open our eyes to the good. Because when you do that, the sun seems to shine a little brighter, and the world doesn't seem like such a dark place after all.
People can be horrible, malicious, and completely unsympathetic sometimes. They can lie, cheat, steal, and murder. But when it comes down to it, I believe that people ARE inherently good. It is when we come across evil in our day to day lives that we become discouraged with the world around us, and we become apathetic and stop caring about others. But people like this man who will stop to help a stranger pick coins off a floor even if they are rushing to catch a train.. these are the type of people that give me hope. There may be a lot of bad in this world, and it's so hard to ignore that. But I think it's really important to open our eyes to the good. Because when you do that, the sun seems to shine a little brighter, and the world doesn't seem like such a dark place after all.