Drunken question for the night, Lounge...are people inherently good?

[TK421]

In your opinion, or any personal experience you have had that made you think otherwise ( most welcome now )

I've come across many different kinds of people in my life, and they can be broken down into several categories, although I'm too drunk to list them. Once, while working at a liquor store I had this guy at the counter who asked me this question " Do you think people are inherently good"? I just shook my head no...since I just got done dealing with some of the most annoying assholes who were pissed off at the fact that we didn't have any more of their favorite bottom-shelf scotch on hand. He sensed that, I think....also sensed that I was having a bad day. He said " I think they are, man...I really think they are" and laughed a little, because the person in line before him had some kind of rebate voucher on hand for a case of the stuff that had expired three weeks before that time.

I see so much ugliness in the world today, and sometimes I feel like it is consuming me and turning me into what the rest of society has become. Ever since I was little, I've always had people telling me that I could be whatever the hell I wanted to be because of my personality and manner of speaking. I still don't get it, I suppose.... I guess I have much to learn, still.....

Sometimes, when you sit at a bar ( in this case, a bar that typically caters to the more affluent in the area, but still manage to get a lager for $4.00 ) you overhear tiny snippets of a conversation, and although you don't know these people personally, you think to yourself "Damn...I'm glad I'm not in that situation" OR it could be the other way around..."Well...I just wrote off a check for $1800.00 to cover that expense, since this person didn't live up to their end of the bargain...I'll just eat it, that's how it goes ".

Eighteen hundred dollars?! Yeah, that was one of those snippets, and it really got me thinking. Perhaps I'm not where I need to be in life right now...I work for a non-profit organization that really doesn't pay all that well, and although I like working there I must be missing out on something here ( probably more money ) It makes me think that I've wasted the last six years of my life on something that will not pay out in the end. Some of these people are at least ten years my junior, mind you...and perhaps ( if I built a time machine ) I could go back and do some things differently...but we all know that is not possible.

But some people seem to just want more than what they have, even if what they already have is enough for any of us to want badly enough to kill for ( but not in the literal sense, of course ). I wonder if most of us have any idea how some people around us REALLY live their lives...and are without some of the luxuries that so many of us take for granted every day. Take a look around....I've bitched PLENTY of times about my living conditions concerning these fucking annoying roommates of mine and their annoying quirks...but then I have to think about those who live in this town who don't even have a roof over their head.....the homeless that sleep in the park by the river ( right down the street ) and the police that patrol that riverside kicking out said homeless people because they are a scourge upon the very image that the community is trying to keep up.


What a depressing state of affairs......and I apologize for the long post, I guess I just had to get it out of my system, is all.