I need to spend a week on an island without anyone who can't think like a compassionate, open-minded and tolerant human being, who can't place themselves in someone else's position for just one second, who can't understand that not everyone is just like them.

Because I really think my head is going to explode very, very soon.

So many people just don't think before they talk, don't consider how selfish and thoughtless they're being. Others constantly need to find excuses to justify thoughts and behaviors that may be questionable, instead of just admitting that perhaps they're not perfect, that they have flaws that maybe they ought to work on. Or not - but at least have an awareness of such, instead of continually insisting that it's okay, and excusable, to judge and offend people based on things they don't understand. I'm so hyperaware of it that I'm constantly picking apart my own words, hoping that I'm not hypocritical, and trying to find ways of repairing any transgressions I may have ignorantly made. I feel like that's one step closer than a lot of people, but there's still a lot that I need to learn.

Why don't so many others even care? Am I just surrounded by the wrong people for me? What is my role in this? I can't turn a blind eye to it, but it is just so discouraging to constantly butt heads with this.

I'm frustrated.