Okay, I admit it, I could have fallen victim to this... I tend to get sucked into emotional stories like this... for instance, there was this little girl that had cancer. She became great friends with the radio personalities of a morning show here and everyone that listened to that show completely followed her story. Unfortunately, she lost her battle with cancer last year. I remember crying in my car on the way to work the day that the morning show announced her death. I really did feel like I knew her.
Unfortunately/fortunately, the little girl that I had "grown" so close to, was real. Her story is an amazing one, from the money that she raised for cancer research to her outlook on life, she was simply amazing.
NOW - if I would have found out later that she wasn't real? I would be irate. What a cruel hoax this was. I don't think that I would have been one of the ones that sent her gifts - but I still would have been irate.
I guess this is a good lesson for me - I tend to think the best about people until they prove me wrong. Call me naive. While I don't want to be completely jaded about the vast population, I guess it's time for me to realize that you can't trust people to do right.
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