Blessed To Meet GENUINELY Good People

 

NOT to be nostalgic OR emotional, BUT WHEN I sat on my laptop to draft our thread for today, I realized I've been touching on many topics and threads BUT I have one huge miss, and that is, talking about GENUINELY GOOD PEOPLE.  YES YES yowwwww, NOT just GOOD PEOPLE BUT those GENUINELY GOOD PEOPLE.  And it works both ways.  WHEN others would meet us for the first time, they would have normally have the same subset of questions LIKE: Is this a GOOD PERSON? Can I TRUST him?  WHAT is behind his smile?  Surely, when I met face-to-face for the first time the other day my latest corporate clients, it's fair enough that they could be asking themselves those questions about me📗📙📘

Oh YES, I love this Tibetan Proverb as it rings and sounds loud enough:  GOODNESS SPEAKS IN WHISPER, EVIL SHOUTS.  And I can do a mapping to draw a parallelism of this proverb with regard the people we get to know and interact in life [let's NOT talk about the outliers like one-off interactions with sales folks, with restaurant and service personnel because those are more transactional than anything else].  And I can attest on a first person basis that I've met and interacted from time to time with tons of people.  There were even cases WHERE I met a long lost cousin after so many decades.  And just last year, I got reunited with my classmate and his wife who was very much part of our closely knit group way back in school.  And I realized that even after decades have past, GENUINELY GOOD PEOPLE remain as such unfettered and unaffected even by the passing of time💥💥💥

In our cultural landscape WHERE virtue is increasingly commodified and morality is filtered via curated content, we tend to lean on signals, a smile, eye contact, even a polite gesture like those lighthouses in the foggy seas.  BUT here's something quite debatable BUT WHICH I'll push hard.  Many of the signals we rely on are actually "PERFORMATIVE".  Frankly, some of the most 'dangerous' people I have ever met [BTW that was NOT one too many] have mastered the "ACT LIKE A GOOD PERSON" persona❎❎❎

NOT so surprisingly, some of the most generous people's kindness and goodness exists behind quite and unassuming facades.  YES, I have made it a personal challenge, often by painful trial and error, to learn HOW to hear that 'true language' of character.  YES YES YES yow, GOODNESS whispers.  Go anywhere, interact with people from all walks of life.  The GENUINELY GOOD PEOPLE will remain 'true to form' despite the passing of time.  For the LESS GENUINE people, we just need to be more incisive if NOT cynical.  WHO knows, on the periphery they may manifest LESS GENUINENESS but eventually you can bear witness to their REAL PERSONA and here's hoping their 'true colors' will be more positive than anything else😊😊😊

Our takeaway:  NOT to be cynical OR negative but validating the GENUINELY GOOD PEOPLE takes various forms and ways BUT in a nutshell, NEVER expect to truly know a person via superficial interactions.  In truth, even talking about families and even your very siblings and next of kin, live with them under one roof and surely you will get a 100% accurate picture of one's persona [and NOT just via social media].  Ironically, instead of having technology help us understand people seamlessly, technology gives tons of challenges as it even ironically blurs things.  Nevertheless, we should be TRULY BLESSED TO MEET GENUINELY GOOD PEOPLE💚💛💜