If It Rhymes, It's True

Day 223: Be Conscious of the Goodness and Sweetness in Others

If you stare at my refrigerator long enough, you realize that the mustard,  hummus, olives, bread, turkey slices, etc. were right in front of you the whole time. It's so easy to overlook things that are right in front of us.

This goes for those around us too. I look at my friends and I see wonderful people who love me and care about me. That's a good start. And granted, I see their flaws too as I'm sure they see mine, but looking more closely, I see people who will always be honest with me, will be themselves around me and allow me to be myself around them, will donate spare change to the man on the curb with a cardboard sign.

There is so much good in people. Maybe I'm naive for believing it but I wholeheartedly do. I've been thinking a lot lately about how things "just happen" and honestly, they don't. Things don't "just happen." A million different things go into every moment we live. You cant just slip on a banana peel: that banana had to be plucked from a tree, shipped to wherever you are, peeled by someone, dropped by someone, strewn in your very path. Nothing "just happens", this goes for our actions.

Yes, we make some bad choices in life. We do some things wrong and we'd do some things over again if we could, but despite all the bad that people are capable of doing, I don't believe that anyone is truly bad at heart. Call me naive, I'll continue believing. [That would have been so good if it rhymed.]