I honestly believe most people are nice. Maybe that’s naive, but believing that it’s true keeps me sane. I like to believe most people are honest and good, and I like to treat them like they are. And usually, it ends up being true. Even if a person happens to be acting mean, treat them with understanding anyway, trust them anyway.. and a lot of the time it works out. Like, I have a job where occasionally a customer will be angry, but I’ve found just being nice to them anyway usually calms them down and generally they’ll even apologize if they were yelling or whatever.

But there are people once in a while who just suck. You give them every opportunity to not be a terrible person, but they just don’t take it.

And I hate that we have to build society around the sucky people. Instead of expecting honesty we have to take measures in case people steal. Instead of expecting kindness we have to be wary of strangers … tons of rules. Built for terrible people being terrible, instead of being able to create rules for people being nice.

And that sucks and it’s sad, because I still think most people really are nice.