Lots of people take a few months off during the winter. Like bloggers…and baseball players. Now that that is out of the way….
I have a proposition. 2009. “The Year That Everyone Tries to be Nice to One Another.” How about it? Yes? No?
Now I’m not talking overly nice. I’m talking run-of the mill nice.
If someone says hi to you in the hallway at work…say hi back. Smile.
Smile..even if you don’t feel like it.
Say thank you. Say please.
Why?
No one wants to deal with your negativenessocity. Do not make your bad day part of my good day.
Am I a nice person? Majority of the time, yes. Do I talk about people? Yes. Do I have bad days? Oh yeah.
For example, here is a list of Facebook status messages I have wanted to post but did not:
Lisa thinks...your girlfriend looks like a praying mantis and you are not funny
Lisa thinks…you are a grumpy curmudgeon and I’m tired of reaching out to you
Lisa thinks…your Halloween costume was unoriginal
Lisa says…just because you’re skinny, doesn’t mean you’re pretty
Lisa thinks...you peaked in high school
And so on, and so forth.
There are some issues one can run into by being a nice person. My least favorite is a phenomenon I like to call “too cool.” When you notice a common friend, or a shared interest with someone, and attempt quick small talk. The person responds as if you are trying to establish a deep connection and eventually get matching wrist tattoos with both of your names on it and half of a design so when you put your two wrists together, it makes the infinity symbol. Get over yourself. I was just bringing up a “small world” situation because I happened to like this mutual friend or see if I could get additional information about this shared interest. Not you.
Okay, that seemed angry, but it’s not. It’s more eye-roll-inducing than anything. I will still continue to be nice to everyone, even if it is not reciprocated.
I just think that if the three people that read this blog make an extra effort to be nice in 2009, the world will be a better place.
And those that aren’t nice…will continue to be called out in thinly veiled passive aggressive blog posts.
NICE IN ’09! CATCH THE FEVER!
I have a proposition. 2009. “The Year That Everyone Tries to be Nice to One Another.” How about it? Yes? No?
Now I’m not talking overly nice. I’m talking run-of the mill nice.
If someone says hi to you in the hallway at work…say hi back. Smile.
Smile..even if you don’t feel like it.
Say thank you. Say please.
Why?
No one wants to deal with your negativenessocity. Do not make your bad day part of my good day.
Am I a nice person? Majority of the time, yes. Do I talk about people? Yes. Do I have bad days? Oh yeah.
For example, here is a list of Facebook status messages I have wanted to post but did not:
Lisa thinks...your girlfriend looks like a praying mantis and you are not funny
Lisa thinks…you are a grumpy curmudgeon and I’m tired of reaching out to you
Lisa thinks…your Halloween costume was unoriginal
Lisa says…just because you’re skinny, doesn’t mean you’re pretty
Lisa thinks...you peaked in high school
And so on, and so forth.
There are some issues one can run into by being a nice person. My least favorite is a phenomenon I like to call “too cool.” When you notice a common friend, or a shared interest with someone, and attempt quick small talk. The person responds as if you are trying to establish a deep connection and eventually get matching wrist tattoos with both of your names on it and half of a design so when you put your two wrists together, it makes the infinity symbol. Get over yourself. I was just bringing up a “small world” situation because I happened to like this mutual friend or see if I could get additional information about this shared interest. Not you.
Okay, that seemed angry, but it’s not. It’s more eye-roll-inducing than anything. I will still continue to be nice to everyone, even if it is not reciprocated.
I just think that if the three people that read this blog make an extra effort to be nice in 2009, the world will be a better place.
And those that aren’t nice…will continue to be called out in thinly veiled passive aggressive blog posts.
NICE IN ’09! CATCH THE FEVER!
3 comments:
This sounds familiar...
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a29/Mandrew411/Lisa.jpg
Jesus I hope #2 isn't about me. That's it, I'm going to be nicer in 2009!
let me guess.... i'm the one that peaked in high school? i knew it.....
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