Good in Everyone

Although I believe there is bad in everyone (as ‘bad’ is our nature), I believe that there is good in everyone, too.

Everyone has access to good inside of them. Everyone is capable of loving and capable of reaching higher in their life. However, I like an essay I recently read by Jackie Robinson. He said, “I do not believe that every person, from every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection.” I have to say I agree with him.

I try putting it nicer and saying “everyone has the capability. The reality, however, is that not everyone is going to succeed, not everyone is going to try. Some people are doomed because of path’s they’ve chosen.

I think they become incapable to be reasonable, kind, whatever the ‘good’ we’re talking about in the context is. I don’t think people are born that way. I think they are trained in a way that they can’t overcome it, or don’t have the motivation to try.

However, I believe that those who will succeed despite handicap, failure, persecution, and the like will be stronger, and live greater legacies because of it. The few that can overcome, and can activate the good (publically or private) enhance life for everyone else.

I believe in the good of people – even though, I understand, that not everyone will activate the parts of them that are good. Even in the worst person, a little bit of good can shine through the surface—at least once in their life.