Prologue

As I sit here, hesitantly typing a few words here and there, I'm getting progressively more anxious. It's rather surprising. I expected to be able to throw up long, intelligent posts with minimal effort. I've been posting online for many years, and it's as second-nature as talking. I didn't realize this whole "blogging" idea would be so intimidating. But, as the saying goes, "the journey of a thousand steps begins with the first step." So, this is my first step.

Have any of you had one of those days? One of those days when everything just seems to go wrong? By the time you get on the road to go home, you're so frustrated that you just feel like screaming? Maybe this only happens to me, but I find that after a particularly rough day, it seems like the entire world is out to get you. You get stuck behind the one driver on the road who will drive 15 mph below the speed limit, which is already an agonizing 35 mph. The route home has a five car pileup that lengthens your commute by an hour. And when you finally get to the supermarket, they're completely out of milk and eggs. Yeah, I mean one of those days.

And has it ever happened that, when your irritation is bubbling just beneath the surface, a random stranger goes out of their way to do something nice for you? Maybe they let you ahead of them in the already crowded checkout line. Maybe they give you an extra coupon they're not using. Just a little gesture that shows you that there are people in the world who are caring enough... to care.

Of course, there's the other extreme. The people who seem to live for nothing but to get ahead, and they don't care how many people they tramProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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e on in their climb to the top.

Maybe you run into one of them in the supermarket, where they jam their cart into yours to cut ahead into the checkout line. Unfortunately, life is not one big happy fairytale, where everyone lives in the Valley of Contentment in the Land of Kindness. Sometimes, people are really kind. And sometimes, they're jerks.

This blog will be serving as my place to offer encouraging examples of the humanity of the populace, as well as the inconsideration of those jerks out there, hopefully spun in a humorous manner.

So, I invite you along with me as I chronicle the ups and downs of the people in the world. It might be a fun ride! :-)