Do People Deserve People
Right now, I imagine myself writing this article in a non-highly marketed coffee shop in a fast-paced city. I sit with my back against the wall, facing the door and this cleaned curtain glass window that show the road and passerby. In reality, I am sitting alone in my lavender coated room with just my laptop and a pink stuffed pig staring back at me.
I imagine the pig, casually named Baby Boop, asking me “What’s up?”. I don’t answer out loud; since, I am not that crazy just yet. Then I think of this mind boggling question to myself, “Do I deserve the people around me? And why? What have I done to deserve (or not) them?”
So I’m back at the coffee shop, looking around the customers drinking their coffees. Do I deserve that business man typing away in his laptop? Do I deserve the barista who made my coffee? Do I deserve that little kid who just passed by the shop?
Let’s put it this way, in my twenty years of existence, I have not really done much for the world. I have done good, yes. I’m not a savage. I have done my fair share of good to others. But it does not level to why I could possibly deserve all these people around me. I mean, if you ask me this question, I would have said no right away. I don’t deserve people. And people do not deserve people unless people have done something good and great to other people as well.
But I guess in order for us to reach the zenith, one has to take little steps. It could start as a smile, a gesture, a simple thank you. Then maybe, just maybe, we will reach the point wherein when asked, we could easily say yes.