People Depress Me

 I have often muttered to myself, "I hate people."  That's not really true.  I say it because it's short and sweet and an oversimplified version of what I really feel.  To elaborate, I merely hate the actions of people that I witness.  I despise people's choices and their inability to see how they are wrong or lacking intelligence or being rude.  But all of this leads me to believe a different, still simple saying: that people depress me.  It depresses me to know what society has and is coming to.  Here are the types of people that I would say fall under that category, and likely anyone that falls under one of these categories likely falls under multiple categories: 

- Rude and impatient drivers: I've already detailed this not once, but multiple times.  So I won't go into detail here.  But they just have no consideration for other people, largely like others on this list.

- Litterers: I just can't understand this.  Littering makes any area look so much worse.  I see garbage everywhere and wonder what would lead a person to just discard their trash on the ground and not in a proper receptacle.  I've dirtied my jackets and pants pockets with food wrappers instead of littering because I am that against littering.  No scratch that, I did that because I am a decent human being.  I go on jogs a couple times a week, and I often pick up trash while on my jogs.  I also will pick up trash if I'm walking to and from my apartment and I see it.  I wish others would do the same.  But more importantly, I just wish people wouldn't litter.  I know some litter is accidental, but it's largely purposeful and just pisses me off. 

- Retail "Karens": I've seen videos and heard stories of people screaming at retail/service workers over the stupidest things, and I wonder what on earth could lead them to do that?  If I ever received service that was as bad as humanly possible, I wouldn't even stoop that low.  I would leave a bad review and either contact them on their website or contact the store manager.  The "Karens" that do this have clearly never worked in the service industry or have forgotten what it was like to do so.

- Trump supporters: I don't want to get too political here, but Donald Trump was not a good president.  Any independent voter will tell you that.  He mocked someone with a disability, proposed nuking hurricanes and raking up forests, and tried to steal the 2020 election.  And you cannot argue any of those things.  He was caught on tape trying to persuade an election official to find or give him more votes.  So forgive me for losing faith in humanity when I hear of people defending this man and wanting him to become the leader of our country again.

- People who don't follow rules or laws and get away with it: Generally when I think of these kinds of people I think of drivers, such as red-light runners, speeders, people who don't signal when merging, etc,  which would fall under my first category.  But that also includes people who do not renew their vehicle registration tabs.  Why must I pay $100/year to renew my tabs but they don't have to?  But then there are also people who didn't wear masks when signage entering a private business says that they have to.  Also, on my way to work, I pass by a sign that says the road ahead is closed (due to slight flooding), but yet I see people drive down it all the time.  I curse these people.  I take the long way around because I, unlike so many people, abide by the rules.

I'm sure there are others, and if there are, I will add them to this list.