No good deed goes unpunished
As life goes on, and you get older, you live through all kind of experience and at some point, you end up being able to relate to every quote.
A quote I recently discovered is "No good deed goes unpunished", and god! can I relate to it..
I am a firm believer in being nice. Of course I always knew that doesn't mean everything would go well, or the world would be nice back, even so, some might see it as a sign of weakness and try to take advantage of me, I know, I always knew.. but it's who I am, I can't be anything else but myself. I figured out as a teen, trying to be heartless, closing myself, hurts me more than the pain these terrible people could ever inflict on me, so I decided, even if people hurt me, or don't respect me for being nice, I am gonna be nice anyway, becasue it's who I am.
I read something, somewhere,that went like this:
I'll read you someething pretty: People are unreasonable, illogical and self centered; love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, alternative motives; do good anyway. The biggest people, with the biggest ideas can be shut down by the smallest people with the smallest minds; think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll be kicked into defeat; give the world the best you've got anyway.
And I thought that was beautifull. I believe that those who know the right thing to do is be nice, but choose not to are cowards, afraid, and out of fear decide to be part of the problem rather the solution. It's brave, living in a world filled with people that pray on the innocent, and choose to be innocent anyway.
I remember, being in a class with people that hated me for rumors that werent true. And I was left alone, the few friends I had bought into those rumors and left me, people that already hated me, now hated me even more. I just kept thinking "Be nice, be nice, be nice, if you are nice, they'll hace no other choice to be nice back" but it was never like that, I went to school eveyday in fear of being judge, being alone, and hated, and on my way back feeling terrible, and once, I even went back home in tears. I was nice to them, until the end, even when the truth finally came out, that it was all a rumor and none of it was real. I got no apologies from them, it was too late anyways, cause by then I had already switch schools.
I have had experience after experience. But recently, I noticed, there is no limit to the pain a human can inflect to another, we have immense capacity for greatness, but also for causing pain and sorrow. So for that I change, I will be nice to those nice to me, the moment you turn your back, I turn mine.
And that's it.
A quote I recently discovered is "No good deed goes unpunished", and god! can I relate to it..
I am a firm believer in being nice. Of course I always knew that doesn't mean everything would go well, or the world would be nice back, even so, some might see it as a sign of weakness and try to take advantage of me, I know, I always knew.. but it's who I am, I can't be anything else but myself. I figured out as a teen, trying to be heartless, closing myself, hurts me more than the pain these terrible people could ever inflict on me, so I decided, even if people hurt me, or don't respect me for being nice, I am gonna be nice anyway, becasue it's who I am.
I read something, somewhere,that went like this:
I'll read you someething pretty: People are unreasonable, illogical and self centered; love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, alternative motives; do good anyway. The biggest people, with the biggest ideas can be shut down by the smallest people with the smallest minds; think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll be kicked into defeat; give the world the best you've got anyway.
And I thought that was beautifull. I believe that those who know the right thing to do is be nice, but choose not to are cowards, afraid, and out of fear decide to be part of the problem rather the solution. It's brave, living in a world filled with people that pray on the innocent, and choose to be innocent anyway.
I remember, being in a class with people that hated me for rumors that werent true. And I was left alone, the few friends I had bought into those rumors and left me, people that already hated me, now hated me even more. I just kept thinking "Be nice, be nice, be nice, if you are nice, they'll hace no other choice to be nice back" but it was never like that, I went to school eveyday in fear of being judge, being alone, and hated, and on my way back feeling terrible, and once, I even went back home in tears. I was nice to them, until the end, even when the truth finally came out, that it was all a rumor and none of it was real. I got no apologies from them, it was too late anyways, cause by then I had already switch schools.
I have had experience after experience. But recently, I noticed, there is no limit to the pain a human can inflect to another, we have immense capacity for greatness, but also for causing pain and sorrow. So for that I change, I will be nice to those nice to me, the moment you turn your back, I turn mine.
And that's it.
