Being Nice: The Consequences

Hey all,

I care because I care, But I don't care if you're aware...

Being nice is probably one of the hardest things for people to do in life at the moment. With today’s society being so god damn greedy, cruel and selfish, it’s hard to make someone feel good all the time. As you know, I’ve been doing my best the past couple of weeks to change. To become a better person, put my life on the table and arrange it nicely. Well, it was all going nicely. Some people were surprised. For example somebody commented towards me that ‘How incredibly weird is that kid?’ A month ago, I would have nodded and agreed just to get him off my back but instead I turned around and muttered ‘Look, what has that kid done to you? Leave the poor guy alone.’ Funnily enough, the person seemed to shut his mouth for the rest of the lesson.

You see, everything has been fine and dandy the past couple of weeks. I mean, top marks and great effort, it’s all seemed to work out fine for me. But today…today was a broken pencil inside a jar of well sharpened stationary. The pinnacle to the day, but in a bad way… Anyway, a semi-argument (mostly one-sided) broke out about who should be and who shouldn’t be allowed to play football with us at Lunch-time. Okay, it’s a stupid thing to argue about, but at an All-boys school [sarcasm] that’s all that matters [/sarcasm]. So, some guys were saying that certain people shouldn’t be playing because they were a) weird b) new (to playing) or c) friends of others who weren’t there friends (if that makes any sense at all). Well, I, being the ‘changed’ nice guy disagreed. I turned around and said ‘I’m sorry but nobody should decide who deserves to play and who doesn’t, careless to what certain individuals think of them.’ I’d understand if they had genuine reasons like ‘he only plays with us because of the football we have’ or because ‘they play unfairly and viciously’ but no, the reasons somewhat lacked ‘reason’. So anyway, there reply was ‘you two-faced ‘cunt’’, I answered ‘why?’ and they decided they weren’t going to speak to me anymore. Well I’m sorry, but just because I did the right thing and spoke out my true opinion does not make me anyway in the slightest two faced. These guys though…

Chavs, Scallyways…Call them what you like, always effing and jeffing, speaking about how ‘weird’ we are and how ‘childish’ we are. It’s called humour, personality and only true friends will understand that. My real friends stood up with me today. So, no, I don’t look at this as a bad day. Oh contrary, today has been a revolutionary day. I will go in on Monday, careless to them and there ways and will carry on being nice, doing good things. Because in the end, I know what I did was right. And as Vanessa Anne Hudgens said in High School Musical 2 (Honestly) ‘You’ll have to look in the mirror long enough to see what will always be behind you.’

Thanks for reading. I decided to write this because I needed to express my feelings onto paper. Oh, and Mike, we really shit-scared those three school kids on the way home. ‘We is well hard INIT’.

Haha.

Yours,

Tom. F