You know what makes humans different from other animals? We are the only species on the planet that observes Shark Week. Sharks don’t even observe shark week, but we do. For the same reason that I can pick up this pencil, tell you it’s name is Steve and go like this [breaks Steve] and part of you dies a little bit on the inside because people can connect with anything. We can sympathize with a pencil, we can forgive a shark and we can give Ben Affleck an Academy Award for screenwriting. People can find the good in just about anything but themselves. Look at me - it’s clear to all of you that I am awesome, but I can never admit that because that would make me an ass. But what I can do is see what makes Annie awesome. She’s driven, and we need driven people or else the lights go out and the ice cream melts. And Pierce, we need people like Pierce. This guy has wisdom to offer. We should listen to him sometime, we wouldn’t regret it. And Shirley. Shirley has earned our respect; not as a wife, not as a mother, but because she’s a woman. And don’t test her on that, because the thing about the Jukebox seems way to specefic to be improvised. And Troy. Who cares if Troy thinks he’s all that? Maybe he is. You think astronauts go to the moon because they hate oxygen? No. They’re trying to impress their high school’s prom king. And Abed - Abed’s a shaman. Ask him to pass the salt and he gives you a bowl of soup because you know what? Soup is better. Abed is better. You are all better than you think you are, you are just designed not to hear it when you think it yourself. I want you to look to the person on your left… Sorry, look to the person sitting next to you. I want you to extend to that person the same thing that you extend to sharks, pencils and Ben Affleck.
- Jeff Winger
(Source: symphonist)
