This post maybe a little specific to general, or it maybe not, it's up to you to be the judge, but I'm sure we all can relate to it.
Sometimes, I like to believe that the world is not as ugly as the grown ups make it seem to be, I like to believe that somewhere in some corner, there is hope for beautiful things in the world. Heck, if websites like GMH and LGMH could be created, the world still is beautiful right? I try to not take on the cynical outlook to life, and try to inject some faith in something called 'kindness'. But then again, it's all bullshit.
Time and time again, life has proven to me one thing, and I shall name that Life Lesson # 782 - It almost never pays to be kind. (take heed, almost never). It's like what the proverbs say, 'help a dog but the dog bites your hand in return'. At this point of my life this analogy is SO FREAKING TRUE!
How many times have you ever helped someone and they turn out to be so nasty and horrible that you wished in the 1st place you didn't even bother taking note of their plight? How many times have you helped a friend only to realised you were just only being exploited for your kindness? How many times have you even tried to be nice to someone only to realised, it's not worth it in the end? How many times I ask you?!
What was I thinking? Did I expect the world to be filled with love and peace? Should I put flowers in my hair and walk barefoot on the grass, strumming guitars and singing Lennon? Did I expect everyone to hold hands and be brother and sisters forever?
I don't now.
It's not a choice to be mean and selfish, it's a SURVIVAL SKILL now in this society. Good girls with kind hearts made out of sugar spice and everything nice are so passé, make way for the new era of girls and their frogs and snails; and puppy-dogs' tails. If you're not mean, if you're not greedy and if you're not TOUGH enough to withstand today's society, you can just go home lock yourself in your room, throw away your key and spend your days counting down the hours till you meet your Angel, OF DEATH!
This is especially true if you're schooling, just ask any person now undergoing the normal daily pressures of schooling life, especially dealing with image issues, peer pressure, study stress and just a thousand other gazillion worries that make up a student's life. Though it may not be as tough as working which has more bullshit involved, right at this point of our lives, it's a pretty gastronomical issue for us students to handle. If on top of that you meet bitches and douchebags, you can kiss your innocent and naive little heart goodbye and gear up to be as mean and as bitchy as everyone else, forget kindness, forget lending a helping hand, heck forget even listening to problems, if they have a weakness, use it exploit it and totally annihilate all who threaten you.
Remember, it's a eat or be eaten world out there. You want to survive don't you?
* I'm in a really cynical mood right now, I'm not denying COMPLETELY that there is kindness in this world, just that since it's so rare and few between, sometimes it ceases to exist at all. It's like pyrite, fooling people to thinking that it's real until you get a closer look at it. You can choose to be kind, yes you can choose to help people in return just be prepared that you don't really get the same treatment in return, so it's up to you to wisen up, don't go throwing kind acts like it's spare change. If there is too much a quantity, people will cease to appreciate it and take it for granted. So that said, wisen up, since it's a doggy dog world out there *
[This time baby I'll be bulletproof!]
Jean
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