Why i dont see a point in being nice anymore

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When young, I was taught to be nice to people. But as I grow up, what I see from every aspects of life are suggesting otherwise. At the very least, I think, we should choose wisely of whom we accommodate. And up to a certain point, we should pull back and have them to qualify themselves for our trust, before everything is taken for granted.

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I mean, don’t be naïve and comfort yourself with the wishful thought that people would treat you the same way as you treated them. Yes. What goes around comes around, but it wouldn’t be of the same measure. Say, you land a punch on someone’s face. If you think you are just going to receive a punch, then you are really stupid.

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Let’s look at a bigger picture.

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The other day, I was hanging out w my older friends over a couple of beers at Taman Tun Plaza. Not long after that when the alcohol was taking its effect, everyone started moping about their work.

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One brooded about how his colleague forsook their friendship and stole his effort to his own credit.

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One stewed over how best friends turn against you for their own career benefit.

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Another even fretted over the loss of his job due to economy recession.

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It was in that very moment, I learnt that in a crisis, everyone practice ‘every man for themselves’ policy. I realized what I learnt in sociology, a characteristic called ‘capitalism’, is within all of us after all, that, we live to our own personal interest and have less concern about the welfare of others.

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What is happening around this world is that, companies which used to make huge profits with the help of their employees were not prepared to ride through the bad times of crisis with the employees. They are not obliged to fork out their earnings to support them who one way or another, devoted to their jobs and contributed to the company. Instead they retrenched them as a cost cutting measure to prevent making further losses.

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Thing is, we do not always get back our fair share of treatment. Though I loathe admitting it, the world is not as nice/kind as you think it is.

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I’m no Mr. Nice Guy. Don’t blame me for that, blame the world which makes me that way.

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