Good Night (or rather good morning)

               As I lay in bed trying to think of a creative way to say that I am unable to sleep due to insomnia, I think about the good in the everyday person. Some say it doesn't exist, while others say that there is a little good in everybody. Personally I'm not sure where I stand. I think for one to have an opinion on the matter, one has to have a definition for a "good person."
               So? What does a good person look like? How does one act? I suppose for one to be good one has to help others, do good deeds of sorts. Good deeds can range from sparing some change to someone trying to get a bite to eat, to helping someone get their car started on the side of the freeway. Are good deeds simply enough to call someone a good person? Should the value of the deed be a variable? Should the good deed of one person be less than someone else's just because that someone else's deed, had a greater impact? Or should sacrifice be the variable? How inconvenient it was to perform the good act in the first place?  I think neither. In my opinion, the biggest factor is motive. Why does one perform a compassionate act? A moral obligation to their fellow man? To be thanked and to look well in front of others? Something that your parents always told you was the right thing to do? Shouldn't one help another without wanting something in return, just out of pure sincerity? I think the best definition of a "good person" is someone who performs a spontaneous act of sincere kindness in return for nothing more than knowing that they helped someone, not once thinking of how they could benefit from the situation.
               Now how often do we see that nowadays? A sincere, spontaneous act of kindness! I see it every so often, every now and then someone will chase a few feet after someone else to return a wallet that had been left behind. Does the fact that I see it so little mean that there aren't that many "good people" out there? Or does it mean that the world simply doesn't need them, that everyone's life is, for the most part, pretty well off? I think the real reason is everyone has forgotten to do things from the kindness in their hearts versus the bargaining in their brains. Forgot about being selfless. Forgot about help those who can't help themselves.
               I challenge those who have read this, as well as myself, to help people in need, whether it's a friend, a family member, or just a stranger out on the street who could use some help. Actually, I take that back. If I propose a challenge it's not sincere. I suppose all I can do is just hope all those who read this, if anyone does, takes something from it. Because, in all honesty, the world could use good people.