I, like most born ins grew up being taught that everyone who was not a JW was inherently wicked, that they were dishonest, unloving, selfish, bad parents who don't care about their children, and also sad empty people with no direction in life.
As I grew older I started to see that this wasn't always true with every one, that what I was taught wasn't equating with what I was seeing.
By high school I could see that my friends at school, (yes worldly friends eek!) we're actually decent people with morals, they may have engaged in a little fornication here and there but not promiscuously, and they were good honest people, with goals and parents that cared for them.
But after high school I was phsycologicaly bullied into ceasing contact with my friends altogether, leaving me with little contact with outside world, and the cult mentality had more room to grow, not fully, but enough to unconsciously not fully trust 'worldly' people.
However, once I'd left the org and began to meet people again, I was amazed at actually how good, honest, loving, kind, and caring many people can be! Who love their spouses and children and try their very best to be good parents and partners. Much more than any JWs i knew. It's truly heart warming to come to that realisation that the whole world is not evil! To meet people who want to live a good life, who care about life and aren't waiting for the next one. And than your eyes are opened to the fact that many people actively help others in charity, even governments provide so many things to its citizens, all things that you didn't seem to see before.
It is one of the many things after exiting that made me realise I was brainwashed. And it is one of the things that I'm most resentful of, that the org took away my right to enjoy life and the people in it. I now see life so differently, and so much clearer.
Does anyone else feel the same?