Sunday, February 22, 2009

What is the world coming to?

So i had an epiphany today while i was on my lunch break. It wasnt one of the life changing ones or anything...it was just one of those things that makes you think about stuff that you normally would not. And actually in retrospect, i kind of really had 2 of them. the second of which i didnt even know i had until after i started to write this post. ok, so here it is, the first one anyway(well, the first one that i realized, it actually came after the second one in relation to time). I went to Subway to get some food, mainly because it is the closest and fastest place to go to eat during my 30 min break. Normally when i go there, i am the only customer there, and seem to be the first person that they have seen in a while. well today they were fairly busy. anyway, i had to wait a few mins until it was my turn to order, so i had some time to just watch and listen to the people in front of me in line and the employees. this is a key part of the second epiphany but i didnt know it yet. so i ordered my sandwich and then it was now my turn to pay. normally i pay with my debit card beacause i usually dont care much more than 5-10 dollars in cash on me. well met some friends at Fast Eddies last night to celebrate 2 of their birthdays, so i had some extra cash left over from that. So i figured i might as well use it. I handed her the money and instead of her counting the change out and handing it to me, the cash register had this little bowl type dispenser thing that your change dropped into. my change was 65 cents, but when i grabbed it, i noticed that there was about 50 cents to much. I asked the cashier if the people in front of me in line and paid with cash as well, she gave me a strange look and said yes they did. They were a young couple about my age, and they were filling their drink cups at the fountain. i walked up to the girl, a blonde girl with her hair braided on both sides of her head, and quite a few freckles on her face. I said, excuse me, but i think you left your change up here in the bowl. She gave me a confused look, and then said oh, ok, yeah, i think we did. I held my hand out to give it to her and she took it and said, you could have kept it, but thank you. That is when i had the first epiphany. What is the world coming to when someone is shocked and confused when a complete stranger gives them the change they forgot. I mean, really, it wouldnt have been like i was stealing it from them, because she didnt even know that she had left it up there. i could have just taken it and shoved it in my pocket and been 50 cents richer. However, that thought never crossed my mind, my first reaction was to return it. now, i know that it wasnt like I jumped out in the street and saved an old lady from being hit by a speeding car, or ran into a burning building and saved a baby; or am i by any means saying that i am a hero or anything like that. I am just saying that it is sad that people are shocked that someone actually did something nice and the right thing to do. so my moral of this ridiculously long post abount nothing, is that i think that it is ridiculous that it is commonly accepted that when people are given a choice between right and wrong, they almost always choose the wrong. The world needs more good doers. and that brings up my second epiphany, I think about how crazy big the world is. i mean how there are SO many bajillions of people that i have never met. seriously, it is ridiculous. So i just kinda realized that most people are reluctant to trust strangers because a majority of people are worthless. That sounds very negative of me to say, but think about it for a second. would you trust a complete stranger to watch your stuff for you while you did something real quick, or let them babysit your kids? ok, well that was really random, but there you go. take it or leave it.

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