I've got COVID questions for you..

[Wallfire]

We all have choices. We may not always be able to choose the circumstances that put the need of those choices into play. But since every action generates a reaction, everything you do plays into the world you live in, the real, the imaginary, and the virtual. 

I too live on the same planet with you and I consider myself part of the whole. But I have limitations. I cannot help everyone, even in this small community where I reside. But I can help those that I can help. I respect all that I come in contact with, and I treat them with kindness and a smile. Even when wearing facial apparel. 

It angers me when people are unkind for no other reason then they wish to inflict pain on others because they feel pain themselves, but I am not going to throw away the bushel because there are a few bad apples.

I don't deny that there is evil in this world. That evil exists because someone somewhere is feeding it. I acknowledge the evil, but I try not to feed it.

I get joy out of sharing, and I treat everyone I know with love and respect. I treat everyone I don't know as if I have known and loved them all my life, and this takes some people by surprise. 

I used to do community nursing, and I loved caring for the mean, surly, rude, and obnoxious patients. I was often called in by other departments to provide service to those patients that other nurses refused to see.

I recognized that these patients often refused care because, even when in need they had pride, and did not want to be cared for by those that viewed them as less than, or by those just doing a job. 

I love people, even when I hate their actions. People are so focused on the insults, and disrespect they feel they are going to receive from others, that they set up their attitude for a preemptive strike, guaranteeing the reaction they expect.

In the twenty years that I worked the field, there was not one of those crotchety old patients that I did not eventually become friends with. It was not always easy, it was not always pleasant, in the begining, but we got there. 

I am not a pushover, and there were more than a few occasions when I thought that maybe this is one I should just let go. But I didn't, and I am glad I didn't. 

I have found that if you hit everyone with the preemptive strike of respect and kindness, that it increases your chances that you will generate a civil response. 

At least in the real world. On the internet, it will more likely make you a target for every troll that is out scouting for a meal.

I have seen so much hate and evil in my life, I no longer look on humans as basic good. There are people like you who do good and make the world a better place, but I also know there are far too many people who will hurt and destroy you if the reward is high enough.
Humans are evil with a few good among them, sad more evil than good.