The Power of Nice

    With all this awful stuff happening in our country, it helps to focus on the complete opposite.  I will stand by my thoughts of #yourlifematters because that’s how I live my life and nobody can argue that.  Instead of thinking black and white, I think about my college teammates and how we all bled Blue and Gold, no matter what we looked like on the outside.  Instead of thinking about the idiots we have as candidates, I think about Jeremy Faison and what he did for the children of TN and just hope that there are more like him out there.  I see people killing cops and I think of how proud I am of my friends Logan and Sweck and what they do on a daily basis.  I see Pokémon Go players and I still can’t figure that crap out so I have nothing for that.  I’ve tried lately to focus on the power of nice instead this shitstorm we live in.

    The only way I know how is to explain the power of nice is to give it a name, well the initial J.  J would shoot me if I said his name because he’s not here to get praise for being a good person.  Being nice is underrated these days.  It is usually seen as a sign of weakness in men, and being fake by women.  That’s how screwed up we all are.  We just can’t be nice, period.  There is this one person in my life, J, who by a few examples made my life better because who he is.  J I don’t think really cared about what people saw, instead he just wanted to be there and be a friend.  J has sat on the couch and held P in a couple of the toughest times that there were.  J called multiple times to just talk to me about 500 other things because he knew that’s what was needed.  J showed up to cry with me on the same couch that he once held Penelope.  J took care of my family in ways that they don’t know and I’m pretty sure I don’t know to the full extent.

    J is just an example to me of what we should all try to do daily.  If you think somebody needs something, you take a minute out of your dang life and reach out to them.  If you have the means to do something for somebody at any level, you do it.  You don’t do it for some type of reward or recognition.  Those people suck and we all know who they are and yes I’ve come across them in this life that we have been dealt.  You laugh with people, you cry with them, and you genuinely have feelings for another human being and what they are going through. What I’m saying though is look at your friends and are you taking care of each other?  This world is going down the drain and divisions are happening every day.  The power of being nice won’t reverse all this, I’m not an idiot.  You don’t have to seek out a certain cause or child, but just start with your friends.  Your friends need you in more ways than you think.  Dr. Jason Horne, one of the smartest and nicest human beings on this planet, (who also has a pretty incredible twin brother) said to me one time, “I’m happy that you are happy and that’s all I need.”  Not a bad way to think ya know.