- february seventh;
on a quitting thread, many people were acting rude towards the owner of the thread. but then again, she, too, was acting rude.
i posted 'people are so harsh.' and another post after saying, 'treat others the way you want to be treated.'
and a girl replied, 'Why? People are turds. Best to treat them like turds.'
so i said, 'it's called karma. you treat people like s**t, you're going to be treated like s**t back.'
then she posted back, 'But I don't mind being treated like s**t. Because I'm not a chickenshit who takes things too personally.'
another person posted a reply to our conversation and said, 'Ok how bout everyone in this thread treat you like one and everyone else be nice to each other?'
that's exactly what i mean. she was treating the young miss who created the thread pretty harsh, therefore, she received the same treatment back.
and i replied to the girl, 'but still, that would put people in a bad mood. wouldn't you rather have someone treat you with kindness?'
she replied 'Course, but if their being a turd to me, I'm not going to be all ponies and rainbows.'
'kill 'em with kindness.
put yourself in their shoes. if you were being rude to someone and they acted kindly toward you back, wouldn't you feel bad for being rude in the first place?' is what i said.
then she replied, 'No. Yes, prolly.'
i began to see her changing her feeling on what had happened.
i replied gladly, 'yeah, you gotta think about those kind of things. but glad you agree.' with a smiley at the end.
and she told me, 'Heh, I think I've finally understood why your name is Optimist Pryme.'
and then it hit me. it's ironic, really. i'm a pessimist. i hadn't created this account with this username because i was an optimist. i had created it because i was watching transformers the other day and thought optimist pryme would be a cool username. it felt like my first step toward becoming an optimist. me, helping her out to see the value of kindness, actually helped me out in seeing that optimism isn't that hard. and for that, i thank her. c:
