Good People in the World

So I have a question. Do you feel there are more nice helpful people in the world or bad selfish people in the world? Growing up the way I did being a child of molestation, bullying and a verbally/emotionally abusive family life I would have probably said years ago, there are more bad selfish people in the world than good people. Our reality is what we live.

Our perception of what is reality and what isn't all depends on our own experiences. Abusers are often products of abuse. Why is that? Because that is all they know. You have to be a strong intelligent person to see through that and work super hard to not become that yourself. My mother yelled a lot. Yelling and being loud is in my DNA as they say. I have to fight often through my frustrations of people and life to not start yelling. It's hard work but I'm a strong intelligent woman who knows that yelling is not the way to go.

I have encountered many evil people in my day. I could do months of blog post about all the different inappropriate, insane, heartless, unbelievable people out there in the world. I'm sure as time goes by I will introduce you to some of them but what I am beginning to learn about the world is: when you make an effort to see the world through different eyes your perception changes.

I just recently went through a few months of hardship. Moving unexpectedly. Money disappeared before my eyes. Disappointments in some of the closet people around me. I found myself feeling very deserted and alone. I had no idea how I was going to get through those days and the situations that arouse.

We were moving and I had no help with moving a big chunk of our belongings. I didn't know where I was going to get the money for moving cost. I needed the money for the deposit to move into our one bedroom apartment. We needed a place to stay for a week while they were getting our apartment ready and our car needed a battery, oil change and new brakes.

I dug in my heels and decided the only way I was going to get through the situation was by walking in faith. So I put one foot in front of the other and dug deep. After all I had a seven year old daughter to take care of. The most amazing thing happened. Our situation landed in just the right peoples ears and blessings came our way quick and easily. Our deposit for our apartment was gifted. Our refrigerator was partially gifted to us. My bank teller gifted her families time to me, more than once, to move our stuff from our old house to the storage unit, and what ever we needed for our apartment from the storage to the apartment. Our car still isn't fixed but inevitably I find someone that is willing to step up and give us a jump every time our car won't start, which is pretty much everyday that we go out. Thankfully, the car will be repaired soon, which is also a gift.

Just when I thought that the kindness of others couldn't get any better, I met a woman from Boston during my first master's class. We began to talk about business and what we both do for a living. Business Administration focusing on Entrepreneurship is my major. In talking we realized we had a kinship with each other and now she is helping me start a new business to help me move forward in my quest to take care of my daughter better.

There was once a time I would say there are more bad people in the world than good but now I think differently. What do you think? What are your experiences with good and bad people. Do you have some great examples of strangers coming out to help you when you least expected it? What are your stories of woo? Do you have more stories of bad people than good? Let's talk about it!