I'll be the first to admit that I've become cynical.
This is what I've become. Not because I want to be but because society has pushed me to this point. I'm no longer the little girl who believed in all things good. I've now become the grown woman who doesn't trust a single soul and has trouble finding that good anymore.
I'm sick of people. I'm sick of the bullshit that comes along with people. You may be thinking, "What people are you talking about?" I'm talking about the people who order hot coffee in a drive through McDonald's line, spill it on themselves and then sue McDonald's for their coffee being hot. I'm sick of the people who clumsily trip over themselves in a store and sue the store they were walking in. I'm sick of the helicopter Mom's who take a pre-schooler slobbering on their kid to the public media and call it bullying. I'm sick of the adults who cause a big stir because they didn't get their way.
I'm sick of the everyday bitching that has become a norm in our society. I'm sick of the negative ways everyone looks at everything. I'm sick of the constant picking and pulling at each others heartstrings.
As a society, we have gotten to the point where you can't say a single thing anymore because if you happen to say it to the wrong person, you could be publicly shamed, fired, closed out, you name it!
This is the world we live in. You have to watch every little thing you say, what you do, what you wear, how you look, who you look at, where you go, who you look up to, and who you can trust, that at this point, creates a dilemma. Everyone is here for themselves. There are very few people in the world anymore that are good and that genuinely want to help.
However, there was a 30 minute moment that took me back to the little girl in me who saw the good in the world agian....
Recently, my husband and I were in need of a fridge. We didn't want to buy one (this would cause us to be even more broke than we already are) so we went to Craigslist. We looked for weeks but found nothing in our price range that wasn't a mini-fridge or a totally nasty frat guy fridge. We even discussed reaching out to our parents to give us our birthday money early to help us buy a fridge. (Which my Mom did anyways. Thank you Momma!)
Finally, I ended up finding the perfect fridge, in our price range. It had been posted for only 20 minutes by the time I found it. The only problem? It was in the middle of my work day. I seriously thought there was no way we would get this fridge. That the odds of him waiting for us to get off work to come see it and holding others off of this great deal was next to none. But, I took the chance and texted anyways. I was honest and let him know that we were very interested but that my husband couldn't get off work until 4:30pm. He said no problem and that he would see us when we got off.
By the time Jordan got home, I had texted our Craigslist friend again. I told him that we just got home and would leave right away to come get the fridge if it was still available. Key words. He surprisingly texted back that it was still available. That in fact, he had already held off a few other people from coming to see it to give us a first chance since I had gotten a hold of him first. WHAT!! I read it to Jordan and we both looked at each other in complete shock. We couldn't believe it. The dreadful Craigslist shopping had turned into an interesting but nice experience.
We immediately got into the truck and drove out to look at the fridge. When we pulled up, there were horses, dogs, cats, you name it, everywhere. First of all, Jordan and I were in heaven. We felt like we were back in Iowa but still in the beautiful hills of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
We were welcome by Todd and his wife Cayleigh. Not only were they the friendliest of friendly but they were genuine.
Genuine kindness is hard to come by anymore.
We looked at the fridge and then spent the next 30 minutes talking. It seems like every sentence each of us said, the other would have something in common with it. It was unreal how fast we felt at home there.
By the time Jordan and I left, Cayleigh and I were Facebook friends and Jordan and Todd had already talked about coming back out and having a few beers.
Jordan and I laughed in shock the entire way home. We couldn't believe that a Craigslist deal turned out to be so great. We realized in that moment that for the first time in a long time, we had finally met a couple that was not only us to a T but were down to Earth, genuinely nice, people who kept their word. That is something you don't come across anymore.
And that, my friends, restored my faith in humanity.
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