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Re: Feeling like you have too much faith in humanity?

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:25 am
by Lloyd Blankfein
I think with exposure to special needs children, you start realizing how much better they are than you. Their innocence, honesty and ability to be themselves is a trait they'll always have over us.

Re: Feeling like you have too much faith in humanity?

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:45 am
by Dickarms
i have noticed this.

and when i see shit like this, trying to attack that innocence....my blood boils.

Re: Feeling like you have too much faith in humanity?

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 11:09 am
by CptCyanide
Sadly the letter is real. People can be terrible
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... astle.html

Edit: just realised there was another article in the OPs post, my bad

Re: Feeling like you have too much faith in humanity?

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 12:16 pm
by Yarbicus
Y0UNGBL00D wrote:i admire you guys who care for and love special needs children. i am not that strong, mainly because i cant get to the reconciliation stage where its like, "hey, this is how it is. lets work with it and give them the best life possible". i cant get past having my heart completely broken every time i meet a special needs person, child or not. lump in my throat even while i read and write this. like, i can work through it, and will at every chance i get do anything i can to help, and when they smile its everything, and im happy for them, but i still die inside a little bit.

which is why i couldnt do anything witty, cunning, or patient with this woman as retribution i would actually punch her in the mouth.

Trust me, man, it doesn't happen over night. Or necessarily completely. I basically have mourn a loss every year. My son turns 16 next month but will never be able to drive. Little stuff like that really adds up.

Re: Feeling like you have too much faith in humanity?

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:20 pm
by ~Abstract~
Lloyd Blankfein wrote:I think with exposure to special needs children, you start realizing how much better they are than you. Their innocence, honesty and ability to be themselves is a trait they'll always have over us.




+1

Re: Feeling like you have too much faith in humanity?

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 2:55 pm
by indienoise
Elessar [Sly] wrote:It'd be great if she paid lots of other people to behave the same way. An army of whaling, helmet wearing, energy junkies just jumping around and making noise.


bast