You meet a lot of people in your life and a lot of them are schmucks, but you have to meet those schmucks in order to truly appreciate the good people that occasionally cross your path.
My idea of a good person is someone who is generally happy, has a good sense of humor, they are honest and can hold a conversation and respond with intelligent opinions, they help strangers, they are aware of their surroundings and try be the best person they can be. They have strong work ethics and moral fiber, they keep their words and generally do what they say they are going to do.
You know who these people are in your life and you usually choose these people to be your friends and occasionally call them family even though they are not related by blood.
I choose to hang around people that don't pander to my opinion, I like an informed argument or a different way of thinking that will make rethink my topic. I also like being able to feed off another persons sense of humor and add to the ongoing joke, or they can feed off of mine to make a funny scenario hilarious.
Being able to laugh whole heartedly from deep within yourself is the true spice of life, but the only way that can happen is if you are completely comfortable with the people you are with.
Knowing you can confide in these people your deepest darkest secrets, and heartfelt emotions, without them judging you or telling others about it, tells you that they respect you and your privacy, they realize that what you have told them you have done so out of trust, and they wouldn't betray that trust for anything.
These aren't just people that you would call friends, this is the rare breed of good people.
Scott Goerz
