fuzzybuddy
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Is it very important to you to be known as a "nice" person? Why?
Is it very important to you to be known as a "nice" person? Why?
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AnnieA
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- Down South
It used to be. I tried really hard in my younger days to do the sweet Southern Belle thing for real (lots around here that don't mind faking it in public), but realized I was two people ...the mask and the real me who could be pretty blunt. So I went to counseling after college and got meaner. 
Seriously ...more honest. It's been liberating.
Seriously ...more honest. It's been liberating.
C'est Moi
Dishin' it out.
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- Houston Y'all
No, although when I was younger it was important to me. Now I don't seem to have the patience for a lot of nonsense and I couldn't care less what people think of me. It is never my intent to purposefully hurt anyone, however.
GeorgiaXplant
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- Georgia
Meh. I can only assume that people with whom I associate think I'm nice because they continue to associate with me. Those who don't know me? I don't give a rat's rear what they think.
AnnieA
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- Down South
Being polite until lines are crossed, compassionate to someone who has genuine emotional or physical pain, helpful to someone in need make me feel good. Being "nice" all the time connotes fake to a certain degree to me. But the term means different things to different people.
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GeorgiaXplant
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Grumpy self? What makes you think I'm grumpy? Just because I slam a couple of doors or yell at the dog or...
Sassycakes
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- Pennsylvania
I've learned that no matter how nice you are to certain people they will see you as only they want to see you. I am who I am and if someone thinks I'm nice then they are right, if they don't then it's their problem not mine.
Llynn
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"nice person" has sort of a softy sound to it that might encourage some to try to take advantage. I prefer "principled person". I'll be cordial to you unless you give me a reason not to be so. As some green guy used to say: "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry".
Aunt Bea
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I'm considered a grouch by many and a warm trusted friend by a few.
It interests and amuses me what different people think of me but it really doesn't concern me too much.
āSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.āā Socrates
It interests and amuses me what different people think of me but it really doesn't concern me too much.
āSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.āā Socrates
Aunt Bea
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These days it really doesn't matter if you finish first or last, everybody gets a cookie and a trophy for showing up.
Trade
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These days it really doesn't matter if you finish first or last, everybody gets a cookie and a trophy for showing up.
No kidding! When my old man's Little league team won the city championship back in 1956 only the kids on that team got trophies. By the time my oldest son played little leauge in the 1980's his team went 3 and 15 and they all got trophies.
Judycat
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I like nice people so I try to be nice too. Not always successful though.
street
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I see it that way also.
Patio Life
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I have been know to be nice.
However, in business my first answer was always no. I can change a no to a yes, if they can change my mind. People think maybe means yes.
However, in business my first answer was always no. I can change a no to a yes, if they can change my mind. People think maybe means yes.
Pappy
Living the Dream
Yes....I try to be nice. Really nice to people who donāt like me....drives them crazy.
RadishRose
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- Connecticut, USA
It's not "very" important, but it is important because I am nice.
If I'm not, there is good reason and I don't lose sleep.
If I'm not, there is good reason and I don't lose sleep.
