The Nice People
We have all met a few of them in our lives – they are the people that others naturally gravitate too. There those people that always look nice without trying, always have kind words to say, make us laugh and generally make our day more pleasant.
Of course we all want to be labeled as “nice” and we all do have the “nice” gene to varying degrees, but I’m talking about the ones who are way up there on the scale. The ones who inherited 99.9% of the nice gene so are naturally nice where, face it, some of us have to fake it now and then. In fact, “nice” doesn’t even describe these people well – they are kindhearted and gentle.
They are lighthouses in the darkness of life. They automatically know the right words to say, they know when you need someone to be there without talking, they sense when you need a hug or a good laugh. If they could materialize whenever you needed them then I would be convinced they are something way more than “human.” The way it is, I think they are the essence of heaven.
When I am with one of these friends, I can’t help but sit there thinking – “why can’t I be this way?” I asked one of them the other day how she came to be so nice – she honestly didn’t know what I was talking about because “nice” is so natural for her that she hadn’t stopped to think about how she “became” nice. I envy these people.
As I was formulating this post in my head very early this morning, it occurred to me that we often seem to lose these nice people way to early. We might feel comforted by thinking that God just needed another angel so he took one from earth but another thought hit me.
Maybe these people die early because the rest of us flawed souls are drawn to them like a moth to the flame. We unload all our rubbish on them because we know they will know what to do for us. But maybe that is the problem. They are bombarded with our negativity but give off only positive ions. Where does all that negative energy go? Maybe they soak it up from us until their light goes out. Maybe we are inadvertently killing these people that mean so much to us.
I don’t know. The only thing I’m positive of is that the we lose so much and are in such peril when one of these shining lights burns out.
