1967 the good old days where I didn’t have to worry about being kidnapped walking to school by my self I could do whatever without questioning if I got home on time and everyone had this basic trust with everyone around you no matter how different now in 2021 there is an uncertainty or insecurity of new people or things I used to be a happy free man my name is Bernie Cluemann by the way but that’s besides the point things are so different as I greet passengers on my bus each morning or night there is no friendly chit chat just dirty looks and dirtier phones if only our world remembered what a life our society was and I get things change but I’m skeptical they meant this much why don’t people read together use and Encyclopedia like we did when I was in grade school enjoy nature or even just the company of others look on the bright side instead of holding on to the bad try to improve people’s lives not bully and insult them support people in times of need give up a little comfort so that someone with none may have some be willing to give constructive criticism but it has to be constructive these thoughts all raced through my mind (as people boarded the bus) I had gotten sick of how people act and treat others these days but what could an old man do to change this I wish there were just other people who sided with this belief is everyone ready to go? Yah they replied I hit the road driving to California to drop some people off at Disneyland as we were driving I saw some people cleaning up the parks and it made me believe there really is good in this world if we just look for it, when we were about fifty miles from our destination the bus started to slow down and it was bumpy a mile later we were stopped on the side of the road with two flat tires there were not any car dealerships or mechanic stores for the next twenty miles so I was going to have to rely on my passengers here it goes do any of you know how to change a flat tire without a tire I gave a little giggle all I got was annoyed looks ok so does anyone have a pump that could blow up these tires one man said with a curly mustache I have a bike in the back I could use that pump it might be able to work long enough to get to a real car shop thank you so much so I escorted him out to the back where we searched through luggage for about ten minutes until we found it then I asked does anyone have duck tape this is very important a little girl about nine told me she did but it was all she owned then she looked at me and said the greater good is better than one persons happiness just to hear those words I though “out of the mouth of babes” so we pumped up those tires with a lot of struggle and back ache honestly it was just my back that was killing me then we put duck tape over where the hole was that we pumped up we repeated this process for the second tire there ended up being one pieced tape left so I took a sharpie from the floor board in the front and wrote you are the good the world needs to see and I gave the tape roll back to the little girl she gave me a smile of pure joy that meant the world to me once we had replaced the tires at the car dealership the lady helping us said she wanted to know if it was ok to present her beliefs we agreed she said God created a perfect world when humans sinned we had a sinful world out of God’s love he went into human form and was called Jesus and all we had to do was believe this and try not to sin we can be saved which means when we leave this earth we can be in perfect serenity in heaven with him but if we do not believe in him we will go to hell which is the opposite (Bernie died happily in his sleep believing there were good people in the world )