Talk nice to people

Talk nice to people
Category: Life
"Talk nice to people"

Sounds easy, huh? Turns out it's not always. I've always been a bit of a plain speaker, and probably one of the hardest things for me to have learned in this life is how to speak nicely. I don't mean politely, polite I can do. It's learning to temper my bluntness and my real thoughts when pushed to the edge. I don't really lash out so much as just slash with my version of the truth at whoever has brought that part of me to the surface.

Makes me sound a little psycho, doesn't it? Maybe I am.

I'm finding that there are people that bring this out in me and it humbles me. I feel immeasurable guilt at not being able to say something to them that is helpful but is always unnecessarily harsh and probably, in no small measure, harmful. What's worse is that in my mind some people deserve it, they disappoint and are harmful in their own way so I try to justify my meanness - that's just wrong.

So, talk nice to people. The simplicity of that statement makes it profound. I need to work harder on this again. Why has it gotten so much more difficult lately?