People...

Why do people act the way they do? Nice, mean, rude, cheerful...what makes them do it? Why is it that one person can be mean and enjoy it, while someone can be nice and enjoy it just the same? People are weird...I'm not talking about mentally challenged people, just people like you or me. No one can ever be normal because everyone's perceptions of what "normal" means are so different. I guess the proverb "One man's trash is another man's treasure" applies to people, too. While one person can despise another with every fiber of their being, that other person can be the highlight of yet another person's world. How does that happen? Is it in our very genes to be pre-disposed to a certain characteristic, or drawn to a certain characteristic in other people? Is it in the way we're raised? How else could you explain why nice people end up with mean people, and why mean people can still have friends? I won't try to unravel people in just one post, because honestly, no one will ever be able to at all, let alone in a paragraph. People far more brilliant than me have tried, and failed. People are just far too strange and different to ever figure them out fully. I'll just have to settle for the notion that no matter how different someone might be from you, they still deserve friends and people to love and be loved by. School bully, or convicted killer, or just your average joe, everybody needs somebody to love.