Faith in Humanity Restored Thread

[Thaedael]

Been dealing with differences of opinions all day, some people going so far as to be outright offensive. Thus I am starting ANOTHER optimism thread. Anything off-topic will be duly reported. Anything pessimistic will be duly reported. I want pictures, stories, live experiences, anything that proves that no matter how many self-centered egotistical people there are out there, or for every dictator and asshole out there, that there are just as many good people, if not more.

I will start.

I live in a country that prides itself on being accepting, free, and uncompromising. Yet today there is a lot of political dissent in my city, people rioting over education matters, language matters and the like. A group of hooligan students started attacking homeless people in my neighborhood, beating them up, drawing blood, breaking bones and the like. Myself, along with many colleagues who have lost respect for the educational riots after what happened a year ago to this day, broke up the fight, and formed a human chain against larger numbers. We weathered the storm, getting beaten up, humiliated, and hated, but we managed to keep them back long enough for the riot police to come and break it up. The good news is that only 8 of the 40 homeless people were seriously injured beyond scrapes and bruises, unfortunately the damage to the students was much worse, but it at least restored my faith in humanity. After all, your society is only as good as how you treat the weakest member.

[MiscChaos]

Really, any day in the Computer Lab that doesn't end with a student yelling at us for their mistakes is a good day for me. Once though, there was this asshole who was blaming us for him not being able to finish his paper cause we don't open early enough (we open at 7:30 in the morning)(I'll call him #2). When we explained this to him, he rampaged a bit, trying to attack us and wreck computers. A lot of students, since this happened around 11, just left the lab looking nervous when he started yelling. This one student though (I'll call him #1), sat there with his eye on the asshole. Then #2 actually started wrecking shit, #1 a put him in the quickest arm lock I've ever seen, took him down to the ground and held him there. Then, calm as you please, he asked us to call security to get rid of #2. We were gonna do that anyway, but because of #1, we were saved the cost of replacing computers and any injuries #2 might have inflicted on anyone. The students that left, they're my status quo. I was expecting them all to do something similar to that. Student #1 restored a bit of my faith in humanity by not letting it happen while he could prevent it.

[MiscChaos]

The concept behind this is awesome, so I'm gonna try to revive it.

Anyways, this isn't any one incident, but something I feel every time I go to tutor my Wednesday 6 o'clock students. As a tutor, I see a lot of kids (some adults, some kids in adult forms, but mostly below 18) who are only there because their parents told them to be there. I hate working with these ones, not just because they're wasting my time and their parent's money, but because they are a nightmare to work with. They refuse to learn what I'm teaching, they're unhelpful in identifying what they're struggling with in the first place, and they rarely last long because when I report to their parents that they're "precious little boy/girl" doesn't want to learn, it's somehow my fault and I'm dropped as their tutor. Those are a rarity (thank goodness!), but they crop up. Mostly, it's kids who want to review some things and get the hell out. I can deal with that and their grades usually improve for it, so it's not like I don't feel good about my (side)job when that happens.

Then there's my Wednesday 6 o'clocks. They're actually the first clients I picked up and the reason I stick with it despite the nightmare students I sometimes face. They make me feel like "OK, that student wasn't shit, but if I can just get another like these two...". These boys know where they want to go in life and work with me to make sure their grades will take them there. Even while we're working, they're not stick up the ass like some of my other students. They'll joke, they'll take digs at each other, they'll act like I'm not just some adult they have to be careful around. I'm gonna miss 'em when it comes time to move to Miami and the fact that they give even an ounce of thought about what they want to do once they graduate gives me faith in my generation. Let's me actually see we're not all mindless idiots who can't own up to our mistakes.

[Thaedael]

My faith in humanity restored moment is just Misc, we need more good guys like you on the earth. The last one I had was in the Reine-Marie area in my city, where a kid in a powered wheelchair was denied access to a store because they had no handicap accessible ramps. A bunch of kids ended up building one on the spot for the store to use!.