My greatest weakness is you.....

My greatest weakness is always seeing the good in people, no matter how bad they seem to be to everyone else. And no matter what they do to me or how they treat me. I'm not really sure where that came from....I was raised to judge people on their outward features. But it was never something that I mastered. Maybe it is because I know where I have been and what I have been through and I know how others think the worst in me without knowing and without asking. However, when they do ask they aren't really listening they are just going through the motions or they are looking for fodder for gossip or some weapon that they can use. Like asking a coworker 'How are you?' most don't really care it is just motions that they are going through to say they are polite and kind and a good person. We are so wrapped up in our own little worlds and making more money so we can buy more things that we have lost all perspective on what is really important. Our ancestors' heroes are not the ones that only acquired great wealth, they are those that showed great bravery and fairness and loved and lived for others or for something bigger than themselves.
We are suppose to try to be better today than we were yesterday, to make the world a better place, and to help our fellow man. We are suppose to treat others as we would want to be treated not as we have been treated. We should live each day so that we have no regrets and no missed opportunities. I am still working on that last statement. But I do try each day to be more than I was the day before. I do not compare myself to others, for I am me and that is all I know how to be. I measure myself against where I was and where I want to be. And who knows maybe one day someone will say..... she did a good thing today.