As a nineteen
year old peasant-boy, I found a new job in a big
industrial town. I was already cheated by town
people, so I was a bit suspicious. My new
collegues loved practical jokes and in the
beginning, I myself often was a subject of such a
joke. But they never were mean and I learned to
laugh about myself. These were positive
surroundings with chiefly young people, loving to
be specialists growing into the new world of
electronics.
Later on arriving in other surroundings were the
social climate was worse, armed by my former
experience, I pretty soon recognized jokes that
were meant to harm people and I succeeded in
staying out of that atmosphere. So I could
maintain my trust in people worth to be trusted.
But afterwards I several times observed good
people loosing all confidence, which lead to
their downfall.
There is a strange phenomenon, that someone will
rather cheat you when you mistrust him than when
you don't. That is what makes pessimism about
people always coming true. And optimism too. Now
the important thing is, that we are so dependent
on our fellow (wo)men, not only for material
assistance but still more for emotional
acknowledgement. Usually it is a very positive
experience when someone says she/he likes you or
your work. On the other hand, rejection gives a
negative feeling, but the worst is neglection.
Disappointed people tend to isolate themselves
from society and they will be neglected by those
they neglect. In the long run this can become
unbearable. So always give new people in your
surroundings the benefit of the doubt. Usually
you will be rewarded automatically. PK |
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