Actually, I am one of those who constantly complain about injustices. I guess those are easily noticeable and we unconsciously decide to make them more relevant and impact us emotionally harder.
It would be nice to have the numbers, but based on a positive statistic, we may extrapolate that to acts of kindness
Have you ever realized that for every heart that stops beating, several hearts thrive and start their journey in life?
I checked this one and it is a bit more than double. Every hour about 15,000 births vs. about 6,000 deaths.
We may safely assume that that must be the proportion of acts of kindness and justice vs. evil acts. It has to be like that, otherwise this world might have gotten to an end ages ago. I think we count the negatives because they disrupt the harmony of the positives. I walked with my wife and daughter yesterday some 12 blocks. Nothing happened except on one intersection where an imprudent driver almost hit us. Not having enough with giving us a scare he yelled profanities at us because apparently we were crossing the street too slowly. That was the highlight of the walk for some minutes. Then, we decided to see the positive and forget about that driver.
So, statistically speaking, there are tons of good drivers for every idiot, but we notice the idiots. We expect the rest to be normal; we don’t keep track of normal. We don’t give thanks for normal.