Are you a deccent person who engages with the world immediately around you in good faith?

Here is a simple test.

Make a list of 100¹ people exclusing people with whom you have an intimate personal relationship. Such as close friends, immediate family, partner/s, ex-partners, kids and so on. List will include people at work, barista at your favorite coffee spot, people from any hobby groups, etc.

For each person write down three qualities about them. Usually focus on qualities that are about how they engage with the world. Qualities such as - friendly, kind, snobby, rude, disinterested, respectful, and many others.

Does the people around you often have positive qualities or negative?

If they are skewing towards negative, it is possible that you are the problem.

World is generally full of decent people.

If your lived experience is constantly otherwise, it is quite possible that you are not.²

Footnotes

1. Does not have to be exactly 100. But at least 25. ↩

2. Or at least you are prone to assuming worst in people. ↩