For as often as I judge without thinking my judgements through, make snide remarks without hesitation out of anger and feel superior for inconsequential reasons, I will also be one of the first to tell you that everyone has problems. Some times, as I’m sure we’ve all heard many a time before, we’re just too caught up in our own to recognize when the people around us are hurting. It does not matter what we are all going through, does not matter whether your life is ten times worse than the girl you know who is crying about her ex-boyfriend. We all go through pain, we’ve got to understand that, even if later these girls and boys realize that those problems were insignificant. For now, it hurts. For now, we cry. For just that reason alone, I feel that I’ve got to at least try and be kind to these people that I meet. I heard a quote once, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” In spite of my naivety I thought it a beautiful concept but then thought no more of it. Not until recently did it dawn on me just how true that idea is, just how groundbreaking it would be if people would take it to heart the way that I did not up until this day. At least now I can try. I want to be a better person, even if only to inspire someone else to do the same.