Gerald Ford said that if you look, you can always find good in everyone, do you

I have to be honest here I tend to search out the bad in a person first, I know that sounds terrible and shallow but when you've been on a rocky road in your past you start to become wary of people and look for their motives and any goodness seems to fade in the background, you are looking for the tell tale signs of cruelty, manipulation, abusive tones, aggression and when you've been in an abusive relationship in the past it's very hard to look for good in people. My judgement is cloudy, I probably find it easier to find good in people online rather than offline if that makes sense my friend?

I believe that every person has the ability to make good choices, and therefore be "good", but I don't believe everyone who can, acts upon that. I'm terrible at making assumptions about people. Thank goodness I don't speak all of my thoughts as they come to mind, or else I'd be in a whack of trouble! When I do notice some of my negative thoughts, specifically about other people, I try to stop and think of some of the positives about that person, and focus on that. But it took me quite a few years to reach that point. For example, there was this one mother who I would see at the school with her kids. She was always wearing clothing that was way too small for her; new clothing too... so it's not like it was something she'd fit into at one time. And I would look at her and regularly think "trailer trash". It was awful of me! Then one day, I stopped my thought pattern and focused on the positive. I thought it was fantastic that she was there at the school every morning with her kids. That her kids were on time every day, and that she was there to supervise them before the entry bell too.

Yes, I do believe that even the worse of us has some good in them. Unfortunately, it is the bad things that stand out and that is what I would first notice about somebody. It would then take some time before I could change my opinion about them and even though it is wrong, I would be more inclined to remember the bad than the good. That's just me, and I can't help how I feel.

I usually see most people as good but I do not believe that there is good in everyone. There are some people who are inherently evil.