My mother used to tell me; “It is just as easy to be nice as it is to be nasty, so be nice. You can always be nasty.”
I’ve tried my best to be nice. To present a pleasant countenance, to speak kindly, to be warm, friendly. It has become second nature for me, having practised it for so long. But I can be nasty too. I can say the sharpest things in such a way….
For example, Odette is one of the most repulsive human beings to walk the Earth; and I’m not speaking just physically. I’ve tried nice, but it doesn’t work. She likes to pass insulting remarks, laugh at people in difficulty, she will lie about everything, she will trick people; the whole horrible package.
The other day she was laughing at someone in her nasty way. As she was passing me, and with my back to her, I said softly; “She is so ugly…” She stopped her insulting chat and became silent.
I had tried nice, trust me. Smile, soft speech, friendly, but she’s bad to the bone, so nothing worked. Alas, I put down my nice tools, picked up my nasty.
Today, she was standing there, I didn’t look at her. I passed as if she didn’t exist. She said nothing, I said nothing.
Sometimes being nice gets you a bonus. People want to help you. They will let you by when they bar the gates. They will remember how polite you were to them when others were insulting.
In fact, people are so insulting that sometimes when you compliment someone they think you are being sarcastic.
A friend of mine, full of herself and her achievements, usually strides about as if she’s the Queen of England. Everyone hates her. She’s been trying to copy me and my niceness, but she doesn’t do it well.
Often, when she’s in difficulty, she sends me to pull her out.
People I have never had a problem with she has made enemies. No one wants to help her. So, she’ll send me, and everyone will help me, and by transmission, her.
The fact is, the most important people in this world, are really fairly nice, and often humble. They don’t stride like they are superior, they don’t act as if they should be at the front of the line. They are just human. And people like them.
The least important people puff themselves on their minor achievements as if they should have red carpets rolled out. So they are treated with disdain.
If you want to be successful, be nice. You can always be nasty.
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I had tried to be nice to people. But then, if things are getting so abusive with my kindness, things will be changed. I would pull myself away with people like this. I am not double-sided face towards others. What you see is what you get.
Through the years of my existence, I had witnessed and encountered such people. Without a doubt, I would rather cut the connections than continued to be deceived.
You and I are very much alike. I am nice, and when that doesn't work, I show my claws and cut them off. Sometimes I don't show my claws, I just go away.