It's Nice To Be Nice

As a child, I never could get my head around the expression; ‘it’s better to give than to receive’. I presumed that the logic it tried to get across was ‘if you give a really big present, you can expect one in return.’ Astonishingly, I was wrong.

What surprised me even more was the lack of disappointment, when I realised that I wouldn’t always be getting huge presents under the tree at Christmas. Like a man, I took it on the chin.

But from a child’s perspective – what’s the point in giving? Presents are all about receiving, are they not? Getting something new? Something else to play with? What do you get out of giving???

You would be surprised. Think about a moment in your life when you have felt really happy, when your smile was from something true and not just from the excitement of getting the new ‘Spiderman Vs The Double Decker Bus Attack Setä’. Have a good think about that moment.

Now think; when were you ever truly happier than the times you see someone else smile because of you? And it doesn’t have to be an expensive piece of jewellery; it doesn’t need to be a gift of any kind.

It can be something simple as holding a door for someone, saying thank you in a café, even saying the simple words ‘Good Morning’ to somebody you may pass in a corridor.

You see it’s nice to be nice. And if you are nice to someone, they may well be nice to the next person they meet. And so on…

Everyone touching the soul of the next, for absolutely nothing.