There is a person named, Sean. He covered his face with a very thick mask everyday to school, but he didn't know the reason. He is unhappy with his life, cried in the corner of his room without anyone knowing it.
He has a lot of friends, whom he considered. But the fact that none of them truly are. They are just the person who are good with him, and who are just his mere acquaintance. They do not understand the real situation he faced. And they just find him a nice person, and an understanding person.
However, the truth is different from that. Everyone thought he is strong, but in fact he isn't. He just a somebody on the outside, but different on the inside.
Day after day, he became tired. And he couldn't take control of it. The only thing in his life is to end his life, so that he doesn't have to endure this situation.
One day, in his dream, he talked to an elderly. The elderly told him that, "Everything in this world happens with a reason."
So, he asked, "Why I'm so nice to people, yet they don't seem to be nice to me."
The elder man then replied, "That's what you think. It has nothing to do with whether you are nice or not with the others. It's your true self that you hide it. That makes you unhappy, but you blamed it on others."
He then continued, "Look at the tea leaf. When you added in hot water, it becomes tea. But why do people add sugar into it? Because it is too bitter to drink it without any sugar. However, it losses its health value. It is same to our life. When we masked ourselves, it seems that people will like us, but in fact, we are losing our true value. So, we endured the anger, to continue to please the others. And it makes us to be very unhappy. Why not live life as simple as possible without masking ourselves like adding sugar into tea to cover its bitterness. It's always important to be good with others, but not be nice to others. Nice might means we have something to hide and have unseen motives, good might brings goodness in people's life but we don't have to hide in order to be good to other people. Be good, but not be nice. Like the tea leaf, instead of taste nice, but why not bring goodness to people's health."
In life, we have always trying to please other people by not being ourselves. We try to be nice, instead of be good to them. When we don't achieve the true motive of being nice to them, we blamed them for not appreciating. Day by day, we accumulate this anger until the day when we can't withstand it, we then realize we need to put a stop on this.
Share the tea leaf that brings goodness to people, and be yourself! You will then find life more simple, and happy :)
Cheers.
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