Pleasing People

There's something about me that I don't get. I can't see people sad or unsatisfied or disappointed! I'll be guilty, even though I didn't do anything wrong to them. And then, I'll be such a busy body and go to them and "try" to make things right. Which is not really right. It turns out worse!

You know how hard it is to please people? To make them happy? For example, this friend of yours wants you to carry his Science books up to class from the Science lab. You couldn't say "no", could you? And then, when his other friends asked you to take their books upstairs also cause they saw him asking you to put his books upstairs. Would you say no? I wouldn't. Even though it will be heavy. They'll be talking bad about me until I apologize and they'd tease that I like that one guy cause I carried his books.

Or when your best friend shows a paper she wrote about your boyfriend's best friend. Bad things. And then, the boyfriend tears up the paper. And she gets mad and sad and angry and upset and all those things. You wouldn't like it when your very best friend and boyfriend don't get along, would you? The two people you love are having a conflict. You have the feeling that you HAVE to do something. Well, at least I do. And when I did do something, like, making him apologize to her, she wouldn't listen, cause she was busy writing her choral speaking script and then, when she doesn't listen, he gets mad. And now both of them are mad. And I get the blame for everything!

Or when your friend doesn't wanna participate in a choral speaking and you force them to cause you're so psyched about winning this thing. And he shows you his bored are-we-done-here face to you. Won't you feel like, you've just made a mistake of pushing somebody into doing something they don't want to?

Lesson is, never try to do anything. Just stay idle. If it's your problem and you're involved in it, then you can do something. If you're just a middle person, don't get into any trouble. You'll just make it worse. Or at least I will.