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« on: September 01, 2024, 12:40:36 AM »
I drove past a old place I use to work. Wheww! long time ago. I was a junior in high school. Part time weekend job. It was a nursing/retirement home. I was a waitor....I remember the incident that push me over the edge and made me walked out. haha So I was quiet, I don't talk much...on the other hand, there was a guy, who talk a lot, joked alot, he wasnt good looking like me but he was charismatic, I guess.....One night, the supervisor, she must be having an off day...I made a small mistake in one of the resident's order...I got yell at, and she said to me, with her fingers pointing at me, "I need you talk like him!" referring to the chatterbox.... I admit, I almost cried at the time. LMAO....I was 16 for fukes sake...I pretended I had to go use to the restroom. I took off my uniform, and I quietly slipped out drove away into the night and I never look back......haha ha
In another job, about 5 years later. Someone seemed really bothered by my quietness...He was a extrovert, so of course, my quiet confidence bothers him...One day, we were all having pizza in the breakroom, but I kind of sat in the back while everyone was grabbing a slice or two shamelessly... The guy said to me "Jonni, you don't talk much, at least grab a slice of pizza"..He said it in a very condesending and rude way...I don't know what got into me, so I got up, walked up to him, face to face and said "I don't have a problem with you talking so much all the time, I expect you to have no problem with me being quiet"...The whole room went silent. the mood was killed....But two other co-workers came to my aid and said "yeah dude, ain't nothing wrong with him being quiet" or "man, fool, how you gonna hate on someone who just wants to mind his own business"....well the extrovert got mad, walked out of the job right then and there.....didn't even eat his pizza...So I said to one of the guy, just give me his slices, I'll eat it....LOL since then nobody at that place have a problem with me...In fact, they all respected me even more after that incident....We ll, as for the extrovert...I didn't tell him to quit or he's dead...In fact, I was hoping to see him again so I can apologize, eventhgouh I probably shouldn't...but never saw him again...LOL
Not everyone will be for you, and you will not be for everyone. And that's okay, you're better off being disliked or turned down for who you are, than to be loved and accepted for who you are not.. It's okay to lose sometimes, if you even want to call it that. It's definitely okay not to be the best in everything. Youre not going to...But it's definitely not okay, if you don't know yourself the best. It's not okay If you let others tell you, you need to be more of this or that....Its the only thing you have to be the best at..Knowing your honest worth, value and what flys with you and what doesn't...haha Sometimes you just gotta put people in their place. You shouldn't have to be a ass hole for people to take you seriously...bu t sometimes you just do it to remind yourself, you're only human, and you're not going to get stepped on like that...LOL