How to get past the fact that most people are annoying as shit

There is something in most people that annoys me.

Author’s note: this was written a while back when I was living in Bangkok.

Today, lying by the pool, a group of guys playing loud music and cackling like donkeys annoyed me.

People who spit on the streets here in Bangkok and act like they own the pavement annoy me.

Loud groups of tourists who leave rubbish around annoy me.

Sally’s political stance on Facebook is insufferable. Awful! How could she?

What on earth is going through her mind to think like that? Not on my watch!

But a life worth living is one when we can, at the very least, accept others.

If we want to be happy, we need to find a way to see the light in other people.

All of them. Not a tribe. Not a clique.

All of them.

Yes, there is a lot to hate in others. Of course there is.

People can stink. Their hairy toes can be ugly. People can be loud and make dumb noises when they eat ice-cream.

They can say extraordinarily stupid, non-thought-out things.