I know I’ve changed and learned a lot in a short amount of time.  But the most important thing I’ve learned is how easy it is to assume that people suck, or they’re crazy, or stupid.  And that always made me miserable.  But everyone has issues, and sometimes it’s hard to empathize.  If you want to be happy, really happy, you have to realize that most people are good, and smart, and everyone has potential… but more times than others, they let bad situations and feelings get the best of them, and it masks the good.  I’m sure plenty of people know that, and I may have worded this poorly, but gangstarr sums it up pretty well:

Actions have reactions, don’t be quick to judge; you may not know the hardships people don’t speak of.

So people can be dicks, or get on my nerves, and in that moment I may think badly of them.  But at the end of the day, I’m not going to hold it against someone.  I want to say that the exception would be genocidal sadists, but I’m not even gonna go there.  Let’s just say this is in reference to passerby’s, friends, the people you interact with daily.  I don’t know.  I want to add more but I’ll end up going in circles.  Human existence is hard to sum up.