A Vendetta against the 'NICE'?
So I'm back with another epiphany for you guys, Jamaicans have a vendetta against persons who are nice. Now that's a broad statement right? some might say, it's even misinformed however I trust that my readers can identify sarcasm in writing, hopefully. If not, I wont judge. Anyway I attended a seminar today and the speaker mentioned that it seems that Jamaicans are quick to dislike persons who are assertive. I snickered at that comment because I'm one of them. I'm quick to step back from persons like this because they come off as fake and I have no time for it. One person mentioned that it starts from within the classroom.
So let's backtrack a little. In grade one, my teacher left the classroom for some reason so obviously the students took this opportunity speak at the top of their voices because you know, it has to be done. My friend and I got up, went to front and screamed at the top of our voices for the other students to shut up, unfortunately for us, our poor little helpful bodies were rewarded with very painful slaps. Looking back, if I were the teacher, I would've recognized the effort and simply advised us , little 6 year olds that the manner in which we executed our aid was not the best but the effort is appreciated nonetheless. But Jamaican teachers have a thing for slapping , anyway from that point on I can't remember myself ever caring enough to reprimand a class for their behaviour, so I'm the laid back prefect, the laid back student, just that girl. The teacher administering punishment for an obviously innocent deed that was meant to be helpful basically made me feel as if being genuinely helpful is an issue and I believe there are many others who believe this.
However, let's look at it my from my perspective, shall we?
Setting aside the grade one experience, I've come to find that, persons who seem to be always nice and forever jolly as well as innocent are really the devil's incarnate. OK, I'm stretching it, but basically they paint many pictures for persons to enjoy, for those who look at a splash of paint and she horses and fairies, I see the picture for the picture, a splash of paint that's probably the result of a spill, but anyway people love pictures, they love fairy tales, they love falseness and persons who put on this facade whether they realize it or not are really just holding up the threads society has strung. Not to say that persons aren't genuinely nice, have you ever been to tutti fruitti? Nicest people ever, but that's their job, individuals are hardly nice without expecting a favor. The girls at my school had this fever, the nice bug bit them at the start of the year, everyone was completing favors, running errands, everything because they wanted a head student position. Dating back even further, there were girls who would literally latch on to teachers and help them to go to the bathroom, wipe their butt and help wash their hands just to become friends with that teacher for their personal gain. Lol. So from observing this, the common man would say they're "nuff" and "pushy" because they really are. I truly believe you can sense a person's intentions, unless their super great at hiding it, but everyone breaks , trust me. I've yet to find someone I know, for example a friend who's truly as nice as the 'nice' people claim to be. Not to say my friends aren't nice but they're not pushy nice nor extra-nice. They're as nice as they should be and not mechanically nice as some people claim to be. Aspire to be yourself , it's really simple.
"Be you , everlastingly true and not those mechanical who's " - (I was really just trying to make this rhyme, but you get it, I'm sure)
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So let's backtrack a little. In grade one, my teacher left the classroom for some reason so obviously the students took this opportunity speak at the top of their voices because you know, it has to be done. My friend and I got up, went to front and screamed at the top of our voices for the other students to shut up, unfortunately for us, our poor little helpful bodies were rewarded with very painful slaps. Looking back, if I were the teacher, I would've recognized the effort and simply advised us , little 6 year olds that the manner in which we executed our aid was not the best but the effort is appreciated nonetheless. But Jamaican teachers have a thing for slapping , anyway from that point on I can't remember myself ever caring enough to reprimand a class for their behaviour, so I'm the laid back prefect, the laid back student, just that girl. The teacher administering punishment for an obviously innocent deed that was meant to be helpful basically made me feel as if being genuinely helpful is an issue and I believe there are many others who believe this.
However, let's look at it my from my perspective, shall we?
Setting aside the grade one experience, I've come to find that, persons who seem to be always nice and forever jolly as well as innocent are really the devil's incarnate. OK, I'm stretching it, but basically they paint many pictures for persons to enjoy, for those who look at a splash of paint and she horses and fairies, I see the picture for the picture, a splash of paint that's probably the result of a spill, but anyway people love pictures, they love fairy tales, they love falseness and persons who put on this facade whether they realize it or not are really just holding up the threads society has strung. Not to say that persons aren't genuinely nice, have you ever been to tutti fruitti? Nicest people ever, but that's their job, individuals are hardly nice without expecting a favor. The girls at my school had this fever, the nice bug bit them at the start of the year, everyone was completing favors, running errands, everything because they wanted a head student position. Dating back even further, there were girls who would literally latch on to teachers and help them to go to the bathroom, wipe their butt and help wash their hands just to become friends with that teacher for their personal gain. Lol. So from observing this, the common man would say they're "nuff" and "pushy" because they really are. I truly believe you can sense a person's intentions, unless their super great at hiding it, but everyone breaks , trust me. I've yet to find someone I know, for example a friend who's truly as nice as the 'nice' people claim to be. Not to say my friends aren't nice but they're not pushy nice nor extra-nice. They're as nice as they should be and not mechanically nice as some people claim to be. Aspire to be yourself , it's really simple.
"Be you , everlastingly true and not those mechanical who's " - (I was really just trying to make this rhyme, but you get it, I'm sure)
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