Before I started working at my current job I had some very different ideals.

I thought that all poor and under-educated people were that way because of a lack of opportunities and the crab-in-the-barrel mentality. I thought that these people might be more prone to being mean and nasty because of the hard nature of their lives. And that all they needed was a little help ( some teach a person to fish ideology) and some compassion.

These views have changed.................................................................................

I have often been told that I live in my own little fantasy world, where everybody is nice (unless they have a reason for not being so) and most things make logical sense.

@ this place nothing seems to make logical sense.

And I actually hope that nobody reads this, but I'm just starting to realize that some poor people aren't mean because of their circumstances, they're mean just because some people are just ASSHOLES.............................................................................................

These same people would probably be ASSHOLES even if they were rich. Its part of human nature. Some people choose to make lemonade out of lemons, some people choose to ignore the lemons in their lives and hope they disappear and there are some people who CHOOSE to throw the lemons in their lives at the unsuspecting masses walking past them! These people find joy in making others unhappy.

I use to subscribe to the ideology that most "bad" people were that way because of something that happened in their childhood to make them so.

As a small child one of favorites movies was " The Bad Seed".

I think about that movie now and I realize that some people are born sociopaths.

Some people are just cheats, liars, and deceitful. They are how they are and no amount of "niceness" (lol) on my part is going to change that.

And the more I think about it its not my job to change them. That's God's job and he does things on his own time-table, not mine.

So what I've realized is that I've got to focus on the things in my life that I can change and that I do have control over.

And thats me!

I can't worry about why Suzy Q talks about me or why Johnny P lies on me.

I can only focus on making me the best person that I can be and what I can't change I know that God can. :)