"EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY"

I was at a party in Morgantown, WV and got hungry so I went to a gas station close by for food, but I could not find my way back. All of the houses looked the same to me and the temperature was in the teens. I was alone, lost and freezing. Before my friends could find me, an employee closing his store invited me inside to get warm. The man could not speak well and kept quivering, but I did not think anything of it because he clearly worked in the shop and kept smiling and being friendly to me. He closed the shop with me inside and told me to lock the door when I left. The man went out of his way to risk his store being robbed so a complete stranger would be warm. I could not get over how kind he was. When I told my friends what happened, they laughed and said the employees at the shop I was in are notorious for using heroin during their shifts. I would not have believed that at first, but it explained the man's bizarre behavior.

This experience led me to believe that there is love in everyone and changed how I see people. People's choices and how I've been taught to malign them for their choices can no longer keep me from at least trying to find a reason to like them back, no matter who they are or what they have done. He performed an extremely kind act without caring how the world expected him to behave for using heroin. He showed me how to believe that people's negative expectations of me cannot change how much I'll still find a reason to be nice.