But of course with the cruelty or people these days, and also the mounting amount of hardship one has to endure, people just neglect being kind altogether. Even when people are just being kind just because they are kind, people who are being given to, would be in a cloud full of questions as it seems all so doubtful. Kids were used to be told, 'don't ever take candies from strangers'. Stereotype to that would be that, kids would most probably run far far away and will forever be afraid of these people who would be happy to give them candies. What if that person was genuinely nice, just wanting to see that smile on the child's face after accepting those lovely candies? Most importantly, why would people make use of kindness as a form of threat to others?
Hence, recently. My mind has been clouded on the fact if I should be a kind and not expect anything in return, or just be plain mean and be happy for myself without the help of others. Truth is, I don't see how it is actually possible to even search for happiness on my own. Happiness, is contagious. Happiness comes from the external as a reference to true happiness within. As insane as it sounds, it really does work that way. Even when you have a fancy car, you expect people to praise you for the fact that you have a fancy car, and that you loathe on that for your happiness. We all secretly wish to be happy in someway or another. We all try whatever we can to be happy. But it always seems to be that one thing that is the hardest to seek.
I have always felt the necessity to be as nice as I can, even if people don't appreciate it. Like how normal people would feel, of course I would feel that twang of disappointment when the nice deed was unappreciated. I would end up complaining about it, and that was about it. However, there had been some apparent issues whereby me being kind and nice would literally just eat me up from the inside out. It somehow did bring up that inner self defense within me, and making me being that evil person whom I always wish I could be, just to have a slight revenge on how I have been treated with. Be it by natural instincts to be nice, or by default that you should be doing what you should be doing, it feels like every effort you make, should be appreciated, in one way or the other. Ego being built by the day, everything else just doesnt seem like it made any sense anymore. Everything, just seemed like the wrong decision to even begin with.
Growing up, watching how my aunt is always the generous one with everything she could possible give, to seeing my mother coming home with plentiful of gifts and souveniers and also returning to her workplace with the same amount of gifts but only replaced with local goods, being nice and kind feels like it is definitely something I would follow naturally. As I grow up, with more people related problems piling up, I would go back and seek comfort from my mother and aunt. One advice that I constantly hear from the both of them:
"You can't always be nice to people, you need to be cunning so that they won't make use of you."Which ultimately confuses me from the ends of my hair strands down to the tips of my toenails. They do tell me to make use of people whenever necessary too. Which completely runs the opposite direction to where my initial principles were. It wasn't something I could avoid accepting either. Life was getting more and more difficult, people of all kinds were beginning to show more prominent human characters and personalities that were literally frightening the daylights out of me.
There is still so much more to life than this!! D;
I shall return to my own land of Rainbows. :)