Call me naive. Call me stupid. Call me unrealistic. But I refuse to accept the statement that, "the world is a cruel, mean, and evil place." Don't get me wrong, I see the news. I know wars are being fought, innocent people are being killed, and broken homes are way too common. Trust me, people have done me wrong. People have lied, used, and taken advantage of me. But those people don't make up the world.
I refuse to grow defensive, heartless or mean strictly because of the way other people approach me. The world is full of too much good to be completely covered up by the hate and negativity that seems to be everywhere. There's so much support, compassion, understanding and care in the people I surround myself with that constantly prove the world and it's cruelness wrong every day.
Whether it's a thoughtful gesture, a smile, a long conversation, dancing, appreciation, laughter, beauty in art, food, buildings, new places and new people - the world is full of goodness. Those hurtful words someone said to you have zero weight over the laughter of your best friend. That time someone was careless with your heart can't even come close to the amount of care you have for those closest to you.
What I'm trying to say is this - people will be mean. Situations will suck. You will get hurt. But that doesn't deem the world is a "cruel place." That's unfair to make that statement when there are so many more kind, generous, and thoughtful people in the world. And although people will make fun of me for constantly seeing the good in everyone, I'm not phased because that's the reason I believe my life is so beautiful. I understand there is bad. People are lost, stressed, hurt, and hateful. But I choose to only see the good and I refuse to believe the world is anything but that.
