{"id":38834,"date":"2014-09-16T17:16:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T07:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/?p=38834"},"modified":"2014-09-16T17:16:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T07:16:23","slug":"must-lose-faith-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/iq\/must-lose-faith-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"You must not lose faith in humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38835\" src=\"https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIQ-0596.jpg\" alt=\"ISIQ-0596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIQ-0596.jpg 600w, https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIQ-0596-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIQ-0596-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIQ-0596-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIQ-0596-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIQ-0596-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.&#8221; &#8211; Mahatma Gandhi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today was such a mixed bag.<\/p>\n<p>Some successes. Some failures. Some moments of &#8220;No, seriously?! Oh come ON.&#8221; and some moments of &#8220;YEAH!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixing my Lexmark printer with some logic, a screwdriver, and a little faith in my own ability with said screwdriver;<\/li>\n<li>Doing an interview with Bel, hosted by the exuberant DJ Paine (also a reader of my IQs) for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmnet.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Market Network\u00a0podcast<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Being told by DJ that another photographer had referred to me as &#8220;isn&#8217;t he that depression photographer?!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lowlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mood taking a turn after only\u00a0<em>two slices<\/em> of bread yesterday with lunch. I woke up foggy and grumpy. Ugh.<\/li>\n<li>My son\u00a0<em>still\u00a0<\/em>being a bit sick and whingey after his Measles last week.<\/li>\n<li>Parental guilt at not playing with him as often as he asks me. (Sadly, I DO have to work sometimes&#8230; tell that to my 4yo son&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Losing Bel&#8217;s iPhone at the shopping centre today at lunch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now, the crowning achievement &#8211; the &#8220;HELL YEAH!&#8221; moment &#8211; that has left me emotionally drained, and in a post-adrenaline coma-like trance:<\/p>\n<p>After discovering the &#8220;Find My Phone&#8221; app on\u00a0<em>my<\/em> iPhone, I was able to remotely put Bel&#8217;s phone into &#8220;lost mode&#8221;, meaning that it locked up and displayed a message on the front saying &#8220;Hey! This phone is lost. Please call me on xxxx xxx xxx.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I even added: &#8220;Reward offered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After almost an hour of looking, retracing our steps, asking shop owners, and all-but-giving-up &#8230; we drove away from the shopping centre. Half way home my phone rang, from Bel&#8217;s lost phone.<\/p>\n<p>HELL YEAH!<\/p>\n<p>I negotiated where to meet, we drove furiously back to the shops, and I sprinted &#8211; like, really\u00a0<em>sprinted<\/em> &#8211; back to the agreed meeting point. The young school-aged guy said his Mum had found the phone. I offered him a reward of some cashola from the nearest ATM, to which he politely declined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faith in humanity = restored.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aside: I am SO glad it&#8217;s my birthday later this week, as I&#8217;ll be getting some new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibramfivefingers.com\/products\/five-fingers-bikilals-mens.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Vibrams<\/a>\u00a0(my toes have worn through my current pair) so I can go for a run without taking layers of skin off my toes. My body literally SOARED when I started sprinting. Even though I was in jeans and flip-flops\/thongs. I felt ALIVE. More of that, please.<\/p>\n<p>With love,<br \/>\nIsrael. xo<\/p>\n<p>PS Sorry today&#8217;s is late. I blame gluten. Sh!tty stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.&#8221; &#8211; Mahatma Gandhi Today was such a mixed bag. 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