Finding The Best In People

When we see the good in people we need to connect with it, become a part of it if we can. It is the good in people that make them special in a wholesome way. You can be a part of this goodness, and if you pursue your part in this goodness you will eventually get many happy returns for your efforts.

People are in general not bad, sometimes people do bad things but most humans are not bad as a whole. There is a lot of good in people and we need to see the good in people to know that it exists. In order to see the good in people we need to look for it in them sometimes, because in some people it is not that obvious. We often hear about charity groups and other non-profit organisations that are run by people who are not looking to better their own lives but are trying to help others with no return wanted except the feeling that they have helped someone to be better off.

But for the Grace Of God, you could have been anybody when you were born. Anybody on Earth. You could have come from any family. Look around you at the people who you come in contact with on a constant basis. You could have been any one of them. Consider what you would have been like if you had been born one of them. Pick a person out in your mind and think about how you would have grown up in that persons home. Would you behave as they do now? I would suggest that you would probably be exactly the same as they are now. If this person that you picked is somebody that you don’t like, does this mean that you wouldn’t like yourself if you were that person?

The people I see while working, or at the grocery store, supermarket, in businesses, they are not much different to you and me at all, in fact with all the trials that they went through I feel that I have a special connection with them all, no matter what they look like and no matter what race, sex or status they have in society. 99% of the time I try to smile at all the people that I meet, not just the people that I know are my friends. When we realise that we all react differently to the way that we are dealt with by society we then can see how we are not that different from each other at all. In fact I would go as far as stating that we are all much the same inside, in our minds and in our hearts. We just express ourselves differently, we also react differently to the things that happen to us.

Some of the choices we made were mistake, some went bad, some were forced upon us, but we still all travel this planet side by side, it is good to remember that we should leave the world a better place because we lived in it.

You are not much different from me. During my life I reacted to things in a certain way, you may have reacted to the same things in a different manner, according to the way we were both brought up, how we were educated, treated etc.

We had different goals and ideals, you took one path, I took another, maybe even for a while we both took the same path but in different countries, at different times in or lives etc. So according to the lives that we chose, and do live, we are who we are, but we are not that much different from each other in living life.

We have both suffered many of the same things, cried for the same reasons, watched our loved ones die, tried to protect people we cared for, worked to feed or look after those that we love. We brought clothes, chose a car, got married, traveled, the list goes on and on.

All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2004.