Rantings

Hmmm....haven't ranted in a while, so I guess I'll rant today. I guess I get irrated really easily about many little things that proabably seem ridiculous to get irrated at. For example, people who continually slurp their drink. I mean I understand if they do it once, but if they slurp every drink they take then I get really irrated. Another example is my roomate, Javier, bolts the door when he goes out for a little bit. This is ok, the thing that irrates me is that when he bolts the door he lets it slam. The noise made from the door slamming while bolted makes a very loud thud that is so loud that I can hear it when I'm wearing my headphones. What makes this worse is that he goes in and out many times which results in multiple loud thuds. It drives me crazy sometimes. The other people in my hall all know not to let the door slam while its bolted because they know that it makes a loud thud if they let it slam. This makes me wonder why Javier does not gently close the door when he bolts it so it won't make the loud thud when the door is closed. So now everytime Javier bolts the door to go out I put the doorstop in the door so when the door is slammed it won't make that loud thud. Ok, on to another thing that's been irrating me this week.

The other ridiculous thing that's been irrating me lately is when you hold the door open for people and they don't say thank you even when your staring at them as your holding the door open. I just don't understand how people can walk on by as I'm holding the door without a simple "thank you." This occured quite a lot at the beginning of last week. Since I'm a nice guy I hold the door open for people if I see that they are behind me. For example this one girl was talking on her cell and I'm holding the door for her and she just walks in she glances at me and looks away and starts talking on her cell again once she's inside. She didn't thank me, at first I thought it was because she was busy talking on her cell but other people on their cell phones at least looked up and said thanks to me. After this incident it was followed by many many more inconsiderate people. This irrated me greatly, and sort of saddened me.

Since after those series of inconsiderate/mean/rude people I got to thinking if it was worth it to be a nice person in this cruel world. Many people in this world are mean, and would probably walk all over you if you were the nice guy. Also nice people are rarely acknowledged for their acts of kindness. Even if those deeds were acknowledged they would probably be quickly forgotten. Its sad how there's so many mean people and so few nice people. I just don't understand how people can be mean to others. When all it takes is a little kindess to make this world a better place.

So after reflecting on this for a week, I've decided to try to remain a nice guy. I may not be it all the time, but I'm going to try harder to be nicer because I've concluded that this world needs some kindness even if its a little to keep it from being a maelstrom of pain and suffering. Anyways that's my rant. See you later.