Posted by ayuda on May 9, 2003, at 0:23:16
In reply to ?, posted by justyourlaugh on May 9, 2003, at 0:10:00
> ?
> one of the buckets was thrown..big bleeding gash..15 stiches...one girl had her ankle broke..why? why ? why?
> someone i never met before,,beep her horn and waved going past me today..she lives up the street...
> the woman at the cashier at "iga" said she thought about me last weekend when the wheather was nice....
> there is good
> all we need is love..everybody now...lol
> jYou are right - I really believe that each individual person has within them the ability to be good and kind to everyone, has the knowledge of how to treat people, and should listen to THOSE voices instead of the ones that tell them to hurt or humiliate others, or giving into the peer pressure to hurt people.
Why is there never positive peer pressure? Where are the kids who lean on you to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity or you can't be considered cool?
In the midst of all of our national "problems" in the middle east, I have recently made a great friend who is studying here on a student visa from the middle east. He is from a country that is friendly to the U.S., and he loves the U.S., but he is treated like dirt by INS and by people in general, because you can tell he is an Arab. He is one of the sweetest guys I've ever met, and his wife is very nice, too. I am so glad to have met them, and when I hear people say stupid, uninformed things about Muslims or Arabs, I've always gotten mad at the narrowmindedness, but now I know for sure that there are good people everywhere and in all walks of life.
Most people are good. It is just the bad ones that make the headlines. I wish there was a newspaper that was only about good news from around the world! I wonder if it would sell well? Or a tv news station that only did good news, happy news, uplifting news - not the ones led by moral crusaders, but a non-sectarian, cross-cultural, international happy news station. Wouldn't that be a relief?
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