Being Nice or Being Real?
2018. Another year. There is always so much hype about the new year among the plebeians. They believe it is a perfect time to start something, or change something, or for a fresh beginning. Well, I think it is as good as any time to do anything you want. But people are growing up, and I think that the general awareness has maybe slightly increased about the fact that the celebration of the new year's day is nothing but a giant and successful marketing policy of the corporates to make you feel all good about everything when it most certainly is not. And, this is what I want to talk about here in this post. I want to address the real problems that are hidden behind the veil of the niceties; the problems everyone knows exist but they do not talk about because it is not nice to do so. Real and Nice. This is what we are going to talk about and I am going to use these two words a lot hereafter. As a child, we are raised by our parents to be good, to be nice. We are trained to say ni...