Go F*** Yourself

When did it become mandatory that ‘niceness’ not be tolerated…when did it become boring.  When did we decide that we have to tear each other down, beat each other up, try to cheat each other, say nasty things to one another….for us to laugh, pay attention, enjoy our day?  Just look at the title to this blog?  Would it have piqued your interest if I had titled it, “Be Nice To One Another?”  I don’t think so.

I am disgusted.  How sick we have become.  No wonder we aren’t happy anymore, are attention deficit disordered, are constantly bored.

What have we done…

What are we doing?

Take a look at adults who say they were abused as kids.  “I was told I was stupid, ugly, ignorant, skinny…now “I feel worthless, depressed”…etc.,  [as an adult].  So why do we keep on doing the same thing?   This time, not only with our family, but with our supposed friends, on TV shows,  in movies,  in magazines, in the news,  with our neighbors…  We are constantly bombarded with images of people beating each other up, making rude comments to each other, talking with one another with the ‘f’ word for every other word.  And we laugh about it!

Remember in the ‘olden days’ -as we used to say as kids, you could watch TV and honestly feel good about what you watched-no profanity, no sexual connotation-just good, clean fun?  Try to think about how you felt – emotionally and physically.  I know it makes me feel happy, makes me smile, makes me feel good.  I know that when I pay attention to myself and how my body and mind react to “good” things, “good” images, “nice” people, “friendly” people, the “beauty” around me, I feel less stressed, my physical body feels relaxed and I feel happy emotionally.   Has everyone else forgotten how to do that?

I feel sad for all the children we are bringing up in a world so full of hate- because we [think we] enjoy hating.  It’s become a world where we don’t teach them about beauty, love, respect,  honesty, community, and  I, personally,  am really tired of the negativity, the hatred, the ugliness that is pervading my world.   I want it to stop.  Doesn’t anyone else care?  Have we become so selfish, so apathetic, so unfeeling that being kind to one another, helping one another, loving one another is seen as stupid, unneeded, idiotic, or whatever other negative connotation we can attach to it?

Let me ask you – How long does that ‘happy’ feeling you get from hurting someone else, from calling someone names, or making fun of them last for you-?   Have you tried the other side and compared?  What if you experimented with doing something nice, saying something nice, smiling to be nice instead of mean or ugly to someone..What if you got a better “high” from doing that?   Wouldn’t it be worth it?   And if you don’t like that or can’t stand that because it connotes benefiting someone else, maybe you can try to think of it selfishly-how it might benefit you and how much better it will make you feel for a longer period of time.

Remember when your mother said,  “If you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all?”  (Maybe your mother never told you that.  See?)  I think that was very good advice.   I used to think that she said this because she wanted to teach me manners.   But you know what?  I really think it was because she wanted me to be happy.

Thanks mom.  I get it now.

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