Mean People

* I feel like it's been ages since I made my last entry, and it's because I've spent most of my days with my parents, or when I'm online I just drop cards and read blogs. I also don't have anything to share much either... just some random updates about my day...

When I think about last night's conversation with a friend on her experience with "back stabbers", thoughts about how people differ from one another just came into my mind. ...But I always get to picture out those people who became rude or mean to me back in grade school and high school; which reminds me of a past lecture that I had back in ADdU.

"Are human beings innately good or innately bad?"

Well that discussion was about the different theories that strongly believes a certain side, either human beings are exclusively innately good or bad. There was no fixed answer though, since it's something that is not measurable, but (I think) human beings are capable of both, and factors such as the environment and the experience through childhood can affect a person's personality. Though I believe that a person has a good side deep within even when he/she is rude or mean most of the time, but it's unavoidable to think often that he/she is definitely rude. Like the saying, "mistakes are always obvious" (ang mali ang laging nakikita).

My friend and I talked about back stabbers last night, and her experience with this kind of person really upsets her. She ended up (like some of the other members) resigning from their anime club and even lost a good friend because of the stories that were made up about how bad each of them were...

I think there are no other reasons for back stabbing... It is mainly because of: insecurity, putting down others for his/her own advantage, greed/"power hungry", hate and revenge. But my friend's experience was more on the taking advantage of other people's downfall... and this is just pretty lame or even, insane. I just think that his action was pretty rude, and come to think of it he is a HE who gossips.

Occurances of back stabbers can be seen mostly at the workplace, specially that employees are in a competitive environment. Maybe this back stabbers think that it's easier to make stories and put someone down than practicing their own capability and mark a good performance.

Anyway, their karma will come. With the consequences that they'll get from the people they stepped on, who's willing to trust them back?

I also encountered a mean person today at class. I think she needs to relearn some manners, like saying excuse me and say things nicely just a little action of respect.

It's our first day for our DynEd class, and like any other class, you'll pick where you like to be seated for the whole sem/term. So I picked the second chair near to the door, making space for a friend of mine. I was the first on the line, and I was ready to take my seat... then there comes this student nurses making some kind of gesture that they are highly privelege for that class compared to the others (us, from another course). A girl took her seat as she reached the end of the table, who's just one seat apart from my left. Then she said "Miss there's two people seating there", sounding confident and annoyed, with a glare fixed on me. With no hesitation, I left my position and grabbed another seat. From that then, every time I look at her, I feel... grrrr...
I don't make scenes, but if she'll do something irritating again, I might lose my temper and confront her.

Months ago, I encountered an ill-mannered guy.
It was rainy and it was hard to get a cab since there are a lot of people waiting for one. When I saw one coming to my direction, I walked fastly so I wouldn't get wet... I was about to grab the door but then a guy suddenly over-taked, grabbed the first door, and sat on the front seat. It was very obvious that I should be the one to take the taxi... Errr... I was about to nag but I still manage to control myself.

Something's just wrong with how these people grew up. I don't think it is lack of education or lack of knowledge on manners... I think it's for their personal advantage, the greed for something they want badly; even if it'll take to lose their manners or step on someone else.