Prose for Thought – Being Nice Gets You Nowhere
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I am really enjoying reading rather than writing my poetry. Thank you so much for your supportive comments last week, I really appreciate your feedback on what you thought of me reading my poem out and once again this week I have decided to record my post so that you can listen but I have also printed the words below so that you have the best of both worlds.
This week I wrote a poem about being ‘too nice’ – something I have been guilty of for far too long now and I am trying to get out of the habit of not saying ‘no’! BUT I am not going to stop being nice. I’d rather be that way to be honest.
Enjoy!
Being nice gets you nowhere
Being nice gets you nowhere That's what people say Take off you with no thank you Tell me will there come a day Will people know or understand How to be polite It really doesn't take a lot Please try with all your might And then there's stabbing you in the back I think that may be worse I give and give without learning I wonder why I curse! I wonder if they realise what they actually did Or if like me, their feelings They keep them so well hid But if being nice gets you nowhere Then I'll be on that road I'd rather have my morals intact Than a nasty little toad I'll stay just the way I am Decent and upstanding And you carry on the way you are You'll be in for a bumpy landing!
Copyright Victoria Welton 31st July 2013
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True- better to be ‘nice’ and proud of yourself than ‘nasty’ and deep down know you are!
I understand what you’re saying and sometimes it’s frustrating. My mum brought us up saying “it’s nice to be nice” I say it to my son now. Vic you don’t strike me as someone who could be nasty. Pleasant is better for your health too. Nasty brings nasty.
I honestly think you should record all your poems as you have such a great voice for it!! xx
chin up honey, you are too nice! lol i love this poem as i think others can relate too xx
Thanks for hosting x
You need to stay just the way you are Vic! Hope you are okay. May join in this week if I can muster up some inspiration to write something!
So true! I’d rather be nice and following my own little code and self-made rules rather than vicious and nasty!
What a great piece and topic! I so agree and would rather be nice….don’t want to follow the ‘aggressive/nasty/ruthless=successful’ route. xx