Thursday 12 September 2013

No more Mr. Nice Guy

His friend asked him.. "What happened to you? You used to be a nice guy."

He starts thinking.. wondering what happened.. he does remember himself being nice... he hardly ever is now.. he has become this bullying cunning selfish heartless prick who didn't want anybody near him neither did anyone wanted to be near him.. he starts going back..

School, he thinks.. he never really had much problem there.. he was always average.. average in studies in sports in any activity.. at best he was second best.. but.. that was not the problem.. problem was around him.. being what he was he never really had any friends he wasn't in any groups.. he used to hang with everyone but he was unwanted everywhere.. looked down upon made fun of.. not a back bencher not the one in the front.. never fitting in but never complained.. he realized by the end that he needed to get what he wanted himself.. he learnt to bully...

He went further, he reached college.. he somehow managed to get some friends there.. but the same friends were also competition.. with not much of a personality or any sense of the outside world this whole stage was a rude shock for a boy from a small town. Starting from people to culture the food everything was different, he adjusted.. he still did enjoy all the parts of being in a college.. but not everything works his way.. Our boy was in love... yes. The teenage love grew in his heart, but only in his. He tried and tried giving himself and everything he could away in sheer hope. Every now and then he saw some hope and he hung on to that only for that to be crushed. He waited... the more he waited the meeker the hope.. and the more he gave himself away. Until he gave up.. he realized that he couldn't give himself away by attaching on to people.. he says "Never again".. he learnt to be heartless..

Wise from his past experiences he starts his new phase. He is no longer a dependent now, he embarks into the the real world now. Confident to make it there.. He gives it his all.. but he is in the corporate world, things are not that simple.. There are beasts around, there is cut throat competition, people don't hesitate to bury someone just to make themselves look better, he was gonna face that real soon. He used all his learning's.. but never was successful. This is where he said he will have to steal what he wants by hook or crook. And he became the selfish and cunning guy.

Looking back he now realized, why he had become what he had. He thought now he had a choice, to make it right.. he could be that nice guy again. But what is worth it. Nice guys its not taken the way it should be. Being nice means being weak, not being able to stand for them self. Being nice means being pushed around and not talk about it, that's the new definition of being nice. The choice was clear to him.

He looked at his friend and said "No More Mr. Nice Guy".