Understanding Humanity

*NOTICE* This isnt preaching towards anyone specifically, its just my view on life.

I think I have come to understand humanity somewhat. I think underneath we are all the same. Really everyone just wants the same things I think. To survive, and get their needs met, and be satisfied. I take for instance Jon, I want to hate him, but I really don't because I think if I would have been put in his situation (had his parents, genes, experiences, etc) I could have been him. Its not even his fault, he just likes someone I happen to like (LOVE!) as well .

I think people just do "bad" things because they dont really understand what they are doing. They just are trying to meet their goals in a socially unacceptable way. So technically its not bad, its just ignorance. Most of the time. Or sometimes one is driven to vile deeds by necessity. The thing though that we do have control over is our choices. We can choose to do what we do, but if we have always been told we are no good then its hard. The choices you make will inevitably help you understand yourself. Unfortunatly pain is your medium of learning, because it teaches very well. Perhaps if we understood ourselves, we would learn more by logic then that of pain. Maybe all people need is some motivation to understand themselves and the will to change for the better. I am not sure where I am going with this, except that no one is really better then anyone else. Actually I take that back somewhat... at your current point of being you may be generally more "good" then another, but I think we all have the same potential to be "Good" if we have the chance to understand ourselves. Now I am not talking about relationships here, because thats a differen ballgame all together, just living a good life in general. Some famous philosopizer (hehe) said "know thyself." and that probably is one of the most important things we can do in life. For when we know ourselves we understand our behavoir, and then can change or stay the same.