Two Ways: Nice and Un-Nice

As childish and duh as it sounds, there are really two basic ways of doing anything. The nice way and the un-nice way. I’ve been observing people around me including myself for quite some time now to have valid argument before I pen down my sarcastically true remarks. And unfortunately, most of us choose the un-nice way in most of our actions.

Take the way you spoke to your parents the last time they scolded you on staying up late at night. Did you say, “Yes, mum you’re absolutely right”, or were you of those who tell their parents that they live in an obsolete time and the world works differently now? Okay so maybe my example was a bit too okay-this-is-not-how-i-speak-to-my-parents, but you do get my point.

Or if you don’t yet, ask how you spoke to your maid last when she washed your white shirt with other colored clothes. Or how you reacted when you woke up just five minutes before office kick started in the morning? Or what you said to the McDonalds delivery guy when he got late and then mixed up your order with a fish-o-fillet that you absolutely detest. Or how you were on the road when the car in front of you just wouldn’t drive faster. Or your temperament when the cashier at the pharmacy counter just kept chewing his gum without taking the slightest interest in clearing your bill.

You really had a choice of being nice or un-nice in these situations. Which one did you choose?

Or which one are you generally in most circumstances?

1.       The I-bite-and-can’t-think-or-say-or-do-anything-nice person?

2.       I-can-be-un-nice-but-I-choose-to-be-nice because that’s just a better way of living and really, if people were un-nice to me even if I deserved it, I’d hate it.

So how about thinking ways of un-doing the un-niceness. Yes?

No Entry

That’s what all our ideas and dreams become if we wait too long.

How many times have we thought to ourselves, ‘Oh, I’ll buy this dress after I’ve taken a store tour’ – often to find it the best thing we liked at the store and unfortunately, sold out by the time we return. Or, we are just about to move into a parking space at the airport, when a silly car occupies it in a jiffy before our very eyes! While many daily outcomes happen even if we’re on time, more than many are lost because we wait too long to act.

Perfection is giving in your best shot at what you do. You can work hard, work smart and remove obvious errors, but there is only a limit to which you can improve it. And guess who decides the limit? You do! I could have waited for my brain to have a supernormal activity wave to produce the best-est first blog ever. Or I could spend a few decent days thinking about it and then just deciding to take the leap of faith – or in this case the leap of blogspot!

So what’s wiser?

Fulfilling your dream by beginning the act

Or waiting for the perfect solution/time/whatever for so long, that the path ahead says: NO ENTRY