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What are your motives? Are they pure? How would one even know? One thing that I have always tried to do with my life is to do the right thing, whatever that is. Sure, I have made mistakes – lots of them. I take solace in the fact that I think I have done my fellow humans well by always doing the right thing with the information I have had at the time. I am not one to take revenge or to execute furious retribution, despite the fact that I may have good reason.

What does the right thing mean? Well – I think that is different for every person, and tragically enough, what one person justifies as the right thing can end up hurting others, a lot. I think that generally, in the end, we all understand right and wrong. It is just that some people choose to ignore these basic facts of humanity and continue on a selfish and destructive course, and to hell with the consequences. It is amazing to observe people justify actions in their mind. Are they thinking? Who knows.

Basic evolutionary psychology dictates that humans need to be jerks in order to survive. It is a tragedy that we didn’t all turn out that way and have an insufferable ability to put up with it, and to dish it out in-like.

I propose that a more valiant objective should embraced, we should all strive to increase the general happiness of the world. Everyone deserves to be happy, but instead, everyone seems to be miserable. Some people even lavish in it, roll up in unhappiness like a blanket. Or to make a more appropriate metaphor: a pig in filth. Only that is not enough, in order to satisfy their filth everyone else needs to be filthy also!

Life is a set of encounters that we have for 72.5 years until we die. Why not make the best of it, cherish it? Because greed gets the better of everyone – nearly always. Darwin was right: sex prevails. Sadly, today I am a cynic. Tomorrow is always another day.