I am glad you had a good experience. My utter disgust with the population right now is at an all time high. I was at a town meeting with Nagin today and I am still so angry. You are right, of course, the media focuses on the ugly and the loudest people are always filled with negativity. I am just drained at the moment and all I see is laziness, stupidity, and ugliness. It takes a toll on ones outlook on their fellow man.
I feel the same way a lot of the time. Just stupidity and lies and selfishness everywhere. Except where the opposite qualities somehow manage to exist. And that's where I try to keep looking. I would love to have heard what Mr. Nagin had to say.
I saw a clip of Nagin announcing free internet service in N.O., like it was going to rescue the city. Whats up with that?
Please don't let some ugly situations get you down Grenada. When you open your heart to help people, sometimes you wind up helping the underserving, the unappreciative and the just plain wrong ones. But it's important to stay vulnerable to the good ones who really do need a little help. Better to help a few jerks who sneak in than to turn away from everyone and harden your heart..
One thing that might help.....store up all the good feelings you get working with the truly helpless and needy people who find themselves in this terrible plight and then when you encounter a stinker, pour out all those feelings onto them....who knows, maybe your good cheer and love will strike a chord they've never felt before!
Anyway, keep your chin up!
grandma