Comments on: Being nice is not nice at all

By: Meeyagirl

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:36:34 +0000

i think being nice doesn’t help to make a person successful. kasi if you’re nice (or sometimes, too nice) there’s a tendency to just let other people pass you on the ladder to success (in short, naaapakan). by profile, successful people are assertive, fearless, and tactical. if they need to be nice, they will play nice because they have to and not because they want to.

By: bluepanjeet

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:32:24 +0000

I totally agree k with your entry. what’s important is being true to what you feel without going over board or stepping on other’s dignity. my kindness is always abused by some people. and when I “slap them on the face to smell the reality”, they often get shocked because the gentle giant turns into a raging beast. sabi nila kasi masama daw magalit ang mababait. Kaya most people who abuse my kindness are those who see me as Mr. Nice Guy and not “bluepanjeet” the regular guy.

just to share a note which I learned from my mentor in the seminary: ‘humility is not about compliments which you turn down and deny in comparison in what people see in you, but true humility is when you acknowledge the truth”.

plainly, when you are brilliant and someone compliments you that you are, saying thank you and acknowledging that you are a such is more acceptable than saying “no hindi naman”, “sobra ka naman”, “no im not, im just an average guy”.

“Mr. Nice guy” can be good sometimes because it always bring out a smile from people, but it would be a curse if you always turn on the mode. a balance between nasty and nice gives you a different shade of gray. it makes you human. Even saints had their fair share of anger and notoriety.

Love your entry… and yes, your latest Ipod!

keep well and God Bless!

By: Edseverripit

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:18:52 +0000

I’ve found that being nice doesn’t really help much and everyone takes advantage of that.

By: K

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:06:19 +0000

Weng, hahaha you guys are so evil. When I was in my HS, we did those kind of silly things to our fellow classmates and even myself had been victimized many times, it was for fun but sometimes when you get into trouble as you grow older and thinking it back, you kinda laugh. It was part of growing up I guess, believe me those who are badass guys were the ones who actually made their way on top of the class. Ironic isn’t it?

Marni, oh I didn’t realize blogger can now create tags and categories on each of your post. But isn’t it a pain in the butt when you have to archives them accordingly? I hope you’re not getting a lot of spams from editing all of them. Shit happens but at least it’s now in BETA. Goodluck on your “burning the midnight candles”.

By: Marni

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:47:36 +0000

It’s difficult to please everyone all the time.

btw, sorry ’bout the feed-flooding. I was categorizing each of my entry and adding some code for post summaries. Only way to do it on the new blogger was to edit each entry. brace yourself for another rush of entries. Hope to finish it throughout the night. So so sorry, K.

By: Wengistein

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:30:17 +0000

The way I define nice, I have manners and will say hi to strangers if they look at me expecting a “hello” or something. But then we have that nasty side where we just want to bitch about people or do something evil. I can’t remember the last time I did, but my friend and I are planning something. Our modern history teacher is totally useless and his room got a projector installed recently, so we’re thinking of doing something to it, but we’re not quite sure. There’s this little machine that’s connected to his laptop and so far we’ve found out that that controls the volume. So we were thinking of turning the volume knob all the way up so when he turns it on next, he will get a big surprise. And we’ll keep doing it and doing it. He probably won’t find out.