I love the concept, but will confess that I've had some rather distasteful experiences from being nice in large cities (rude/weird comments, a bit of a stalker in the UK - well, 2 actually who somehow got my phone number among other bits of information), so I have become a bit jaded.
I do hate that I'm always second guessing being nice though.
I have to admit that my concept of being nice is toned down tremendously now that I live in Toronto, and now that I am going on three years here I suspect I am becoming a bit more cynical all the time. I stopped being the mad woman who said hi to people on the bus a long time ago!
I hate, mostly, that in various city workplaces I've experienced this reaction where, if you are nice to someone then they (and worse, others) think you must be strategically doing so for a reason (and then you start assuming the same in other people, and sometimes the assumption is true). This is where niceness, straight up, is something that needs to get dusted off (as in above).
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I do hate that I'm always second guessing being nice though.
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I hate, mostly, that in various city workplaces I've experienced this reaction where, if you are nice to someone then they (and worse, others) think you must be strategically doing so for a reason (and then you start assuming the same in other people, and sometimes the assumption is true). This is where niceness, straight up, is something that needs to get dusted off (as in above).
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