Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Nice luxury

It’s great to be nice. Being nice adds value to your interactions and enriches the lives of those around you.

Yet being nice is a luxury. You earn that luxury by being real, and by successfully dealing with reality.

Because reality itself is not nice. Reality does not accommodate you or anyone else, so it’s up to you to adjust and thrive within its uncaring parameters.

As good as it is, being nice is not always the best choice. When your five year old wants to run out into a busy street, that’s the time to be firm, not nice.

Thousands of years of human struggle against cold hard reality have earned present day people the desirable option of being nice. Even so, reality is still very much present, and it doesn’t change just because you’re nice.

Make the most of your good fortune by being nice whenever you can. Just make sure you don’t ignore reality in order to do so.

— Ralph Marston

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