I don't have a whole lot of faith in humanity.. people just seem so selfish, so uncaring. As an example I see every day, my peers do what I call 'information hoarding'. If you ask them a (school related) question, they'll try their best to answer without really telling you anything. Like, they don't want to share any knowledge in an attempt to stay ahead of you in some way. I see this selfshness in all types of people, but let me tell ya, engineers are the worst. Such a competitive field.. but that shouldn't be an excuse.
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But every once in awhile, something small and insignificant happens to give me hope that we're not all a bunch of self consumed bastards.
Yesterday I dropped a glove, in the engineering building, and when I retraced my steps I found it resting (quite visibly) on top of a locker. It doesn't seem like much, but someone (probably an engineer, no less!) had to go through the thought process: "Someone will be looking for this... I'll put it somewhere it won't get trampled or moved" 99.9% of the population would have walked on by. Impressive. Maybe if more people were concerned with others rather than just their own interests the current events of the world right now would be far different....
(All that to say: )
But every once in awhile, something small and insignificant happens to give me hope that we're not all a bunch of self consumed bastards.
Yesterday I dropped a glove, in the engineering building, and when I retraced my steps I found it resting (quite visibly) on top of a locker. It doesn't seem like much, but someone (probably an engineer, no less!) had to go through the thought process: "Someone will be looking for this... I'll put it somewhere it won't get trampled or moved" 99.9% of the population would have walked on by. Impressive. Maybe if more people were concerned with others rather than just their own interests the current events of the world right now would be far different....
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but as to the bigger theme of whether people are creeps? Um, plenty are. When I saw Susan Sontag on Book TV, she said there was the 10% who are exceptionally good, the 10% who are exceptionally evil, and the 80% of us inbetween who have to watch which types we let sway us.