Why do I bother doing nice things?

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"Because while it is nice to be important, it is more important to be nice."

 

Are those green eyes? I thought you had blue, but I can't tell.

 

Well, like I said, I'm pettier than Maria. I'm usually quite tough, but he has a way of hurting my feelings.

 

oh here is a cuter one. my sis and cousin.

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She looks evil in that one

 

Dads suck. Mine left me when I was just a baby, so my respect for most of them is sub-nil.

 

She is evil

 

Sure she's cute, but you're cuter.

 

My dad was the same way, a mamaboy product of the 50s. My mom hated it. He used to read the paper and lay out each page on the living room floor for future reference. One day, my mom flatly refused to clean up after him anymore, but my grandmother came over to pick up the newspaper, and my mom was so pissed.

 

I would be pissed too! We never really cook too much and never eat together, but we are a super close family. Sometimes before my mom is asleep, she gets into bed at 9pm and watches some tv, my brother, my sister, and I will all crawl in with her and chill. its cozy.

 

Okay this is weird to quote myself, but a month before my dad died of a stroke he came to visit me for a week at my apartment at UF. After about 5 days the place was a total wreck, dirty dishes, newspapers, pot, garbage, laundry everywhere. Finally he said, "Ahhh, I can't take the mess anymore!" He was expecting me to clean up after him, but I told him I wasn't gonna do jackshit until he left.

 

Oh my God.

 

you know, sometimes I wonder.. why am I doing this? if the rewards not gonna worth the cost? but.. I don't "invest" in anything, I just am nice and extremely generous (too generous) because I wanna be.. and.. that's it. I'm just a spoiler..

 

We were both happy to cook for him. We like doing things for people.

 

Ehh, that was supposed to be me. ^^

 

Aww. I'm so jealous.

Your sister shares your smile and your eyes.

Here's Therese with a friend (Ben).





She's got a hot new shorter do now, but I don't have a pic.

 

the kinds of things each of us do, adds up togather to the kind of world we live in, even if not everyone is always inspired to imitate us. so whatever kind of world you want to live in, that's the reason.

like i say, really pretty simple, even if it often doesn't seem that way.

i mean, so there'll always be a few jerks, but if we let that be a reason to all be jerks then we live in a jerk world. there's always a few decent folk to, and i think most people would like to be, so if we let THAT be a reason and act reasonable and decent, then, well if enough of us do anyway, then we can have a reasonable and decent world to live in.

i don't know why some people seem to find this so hard to understand.
i mean i guess its because there taught to expect it to be all so totally linear and when it turns out to be statistical instead they just throw up their hands and refuse to understand how it still applies.

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There's a big difference between doing nice things and doing what's right. I was giving out heaps of money to the beggars in Manila and buying their fake coins just because I felt guilty for being a rich white person in a third world country (and because I thought it was the right thing to do). Then I came across these kids who said 'money please! we no buy drugs!', and I realized I'd probably just spent my whole trip financing dozens of drug habits.

So I treated them to a free meal at MacDonald's. Still, it was really stupid of me.