Nice Is a Four Letter Word

Words are powerful. As a blogger and an avid reader, I am completely aware that the things I say can have an overwhelming impact on someone, whether I mean them to or not. As one of those girls who has always been in a relationship with the wrong guy and been friends with more males than females, I've learned to be sarcastic and quick with the F bomb. I can get really loud, really obnoxious and I can often be overheard threatening someone with a punch to the throat. This is not the way to stay classy, my friends. (Even if nine times out of ten that throat punch is well deserved.)

Upon some recent self reflection, I decided to embark on a journey to be a little nicer to the people around me. Taking it a step further, I also decided to try my hand at offering random encouragement and compliments, in hopes of brightening someone else's day.
Let me tell you, this is a lot harder than I imagined. Me not be sarcastic? It's like eating orange juice with your cereal instead of milk. Some people are miserably rude and they make it difficult for me to tell them their hair looks nice when in reality they deserve to be in that Sour Patch commercial where the candy cuts off the little girls' pig tail.
Despite the horrendous attitudes of some of the people I deal with on a daily basis, I would like to continue working towards being a kinder human being. Right now, my heart and mind both need to do some healing and I really think this is something that will help with the process. Plus, next time someone at work is a smartass, I can just tell them they have a nice smile and pretty hair and walk away instead of threatening them with a throat punch for being rude. Or wait, is that kind of sexual harassment? Oh well, either way they will be so confused that they will be speechless. So it's a win-win kind of situation for me.
At some point in this post I had planned to be inspiring and to instill in all of you the desire to jump on the "be kind" bandwagon with me. But I think I just made it sound like I'm forcing myself to play nice and I'm pissed about it. Really, I'm not.
Happy Hump Day, minions. Be nice. Hashtag motivation. And I'm out.