Picture this. Long hallway. Full of busy students. Suddenly, one drops their cell phone right in front of you. You pick it up...and get this response...
"WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!"
Yep. That's what happened to me. Trying to be generous and I get that angry question shoved in my face. I have no idea what's the matter with me. Maybe I'm too nice. And then I realized something.
I am too nice.
Maybe I should start being mean. Maybe that's what I should offer to people. But why do that when I know I am going to feel bad after committing such a dickhead act. And then I think of the phrase "nice guys finish last."
So I don't know. Did I lose friends over the fact that I am too nice? I came up with some facts that I have come to admire, because they have happened to me way too many times:
1. I help someone with a "crush" problem - it always ends up in my face. "Well Clay, you shouldn't have said that to them, now they hate me!"
2. Being nice over instant messenger = "leave me alone, Clay"
3. Asking people to go do something usually ends up in me giving them rides and then forgetting about the fact I actually EXIST. Then when the time comes to go home "Clay, where you at, let's go home!"
4. "Hey I have an idea!" says me "Clay that idea sucks!" says the other person.
5. I am impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember
1 comment:
Nothings wrong with you Clay, it's the people that you hang out with. Sounds to me like they need to show you more respect and there's not much you can do about that, except stick up for yourself more.
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