Most people are good

A well known quote:
"Anne Frank. "It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart""

I so believe, too... Or if not good at heart then simply seeking the time and space to be good and successful and creative.

I basically think most people live to establish a home for themselves and their families so that essentials are taken for granted by them and their families so then creativity and luxuries may be pursued and achieved as anyone wants to achieve. In other words - most people want to be safe and content and then pursue passions and uniqueness. 

TRUE - most energy we hear about in the news/social media, etc... is about young people being passionate about social and political issues and older people sitting squarely in the road of what may be progress. There are young people who slog forward and their are old people open to change, too. The exciting drama of the young radicals against the old guard makes us listen with either hope or anxiety while the lives of most people are not soo interesting.

Another quote:
"Henry David Thoreau famously stated in Walden that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” He thinks misplaced value is the cause: We feel a void in our lives, and we attempt to fill it with things like money, possessions, and accolades. We think these things will make us happy."

We strive.for happiness often! We declare happiness to be our goal and yet happiness is fleeting as is sadness and pain and joy and most emotions! There is an ebb and flow to our feelings with the contrasts highlighting pairs such as happy and sad. The goals, in my opinion, is to notice our feelings and cherish them as they come and go. There are things to do to help us note and accept feelings and situations such as meditation, drugs, mindfulness, friends.... The bottom line is to know your feelings and express them well and effectively so you might get what you want. Remember sometimes you may not know what you really want and what is really good for you.... so notice as you go on and on... What are you feeling!?

How many of us really notice our feelings? How many of us effectively express our feelings? Our wants? Our needs? How many of us know ourselves well enough to be sure our interests in our futures are correct?

We don't even know what is currently really real! The past is obscured by unknowns, too. Why did someone do or not do something? Today with limited information about the past I can't be sure about the present. The future is based on so many unknowns, past and present and future. The future is simply impossible to know.

Most people know the future is uncertain. The degrees of knowing and uncertainty and anxiety differ amongst different people for various reasons. Some people are in despair. Some are surrounded by attractions and distractions that make them happy. Some surroundings cause sadness. People feel differing levels of control over their lives and the lives of others.  Some of us generally feel safe. Some generally live with fear. 

There is, in my opinion and my experience, a continuum for most aspects of life. Most people live along various continuums somewhere in the middle. MOST OF US ARE SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE....  of ??? 

Most people want what is good and best for themselves and for those close to them. The people within that circle of closeness is best when the circle is supportive of all within. The larger the circle the more difficult it is to take care of everyone of that larger group. That is the issue/PROBLEM. There is always a NUMBERS GAME being played and frankly I believe and hope the numbers game and the money part of the numbers game can be rationally won for all!

Go figure -- what numbers motivate what? GREED is absurd. Hording money in vast accounts of hundreds of millions of dollars is not a real goal. A mountain of gold and silver does not make anyone or anything good. Most people know they need a certain number of dollars and they want more for wants. And there is enough GOOD STUFF to go around for everyone. Maybe not a Mercedes for everyone but a good Chevy or Toyota.  Five hundred square feet of living space for an individual may be more or less then wanted but needs for shelter and for clothes and food can be met  if we cut down waste and increase distribution systems.

Most of what needs doing can be done... NOW...

Gentleness is what I would like to see from haves and have-nots. More sharing. Move caring. More love.