In my life I have indeed met some truly good people.
I come to think of it today since
I might have left a truly good woman
giving unconditional love.
Sometimes I feel there is something wrong with the world,
but hen I remember:
If we see good we don’t think that all is good.
When we see one thing or person being bad,
we generalize and many think that all persons or situations similar must be equally bad.
So why should not the opposite also be true?
You see one thing good = more things are good!
If it is, the world is not half as bad as I thought.
There is at least as much good as there is bad.
In fact the people that do good (uncoditionally) are many times not seen,
but they are there, among us everywhere.
Many of them are not older than they can show with their fingers.
I am talking about unconditional good
without any expectation of getting anything back at all:
leaving nice and comforting notes in a book at the library for a mother to be,
so called guerrilla goodness.
Or letting a refugee live in your house until ready to move on.
Or the unselfish goodness that happens when you most need it:
Some 18 years ago (before mobile phones and digital cameras)
I left my home in a hurry. Brokenhearted I spent my last money and flew to the other side of the world.
In the south of Mexico I chopped and cleared jungle for roads to pass,
people gave me food that was left over when restaurants closed,
poor families sharing what little food they had on trains that traveled so slow it took days to get where you were going.
Those were unselfish acts as well as the five Mariachis escorting me from parts of Mexico City in which I would not have lasted long.
Or the veterinarian taking me into his home, treating my typhoid fever for weeks without asking for nothing in return.
But above all
the little Zapotec boy
with torn clothes,
not a half man tall,
that just before nightfall
high up in the Oaxaca mountains
spent all his money
to pay the bus
for a skinny bearded long-haired-giant
a stranger
whom he had never met before
also giving me half his bread to eat
even though I did not understand a word of Chatino.
That is unconditional good
and
I have not forgotten you little hero
Just to clear things up since some people always have to bring their own religion into things.
I don’t talk about religious-doing-good-nonsense or similar. Doing good because you feel you have to, or in the name of someone else is not unconditional in my book.
Especially if you only are willing to help those that you perceive are in your own group or think like you do.
Some religious people do unconditional good too, but not because they are religious.
What a beautiful piece! The beauty of your words brought tears to my eyes. When I read stories like yours, the world feels much better. This came at the most opportune time too. Mom is reading the news beside me and… (no need to repeat what’s in the news today). So, thank you for this feel-gooder.
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you are a hero… sir! you are a hope. you just lightens the mind with hope… i love your posts.
Thank you humbly
I am just a person and it is the good people that I meet in life that shine through here.
i am glad though that you feel hope
Hope is what keep this beautiful planet from destruction
Beautiful post and yes there are still good people in the world!
Thank you
I was good long ago,
before cell phones and digital cameras.
I am not a nice person now, nor good.
But I am glad there are a few like them in the world
who let this old man remember
the woman who – wordless -
in a shelter gave him five dollars of faith.
Every person can do acts of goodness even if you feel you are not good. I believe you can too. Pay it forward
Perfect love are my thoughts to you
Love this. You touch my heart. Thank you.
I’d say you are one of the good people
Thank you and perfect love!