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I heard the most wonderful thing today.

I was flattered by the simple compliment.

In english, for our novel study of The Great Gatsby, we have been having to do these overviews and discussion roles everyday in obtaining a successful, and thought provoking discussion.

Anywho, so I found out that my friend when working on part of her overview in Physics, a guy in our english class turned to her and said, you don't have to do so much work you know. She replied and said that she knows but she felt bad and like she needed to do lots becuase I (ME!) was always so prepared and had so much to contribute to our discussions. Then they continued to talk about how I was probably going to be a teacher and that I was just so nice.

Now I remember when I was younger, in grade 6 exactly, and everyone had to write something that they liked about each person in the class for them. So for example My name was on a piece of paper and it got passed around and everyone would write something on it. I got "very nice" and "nice" so many times, and I was like wow. I'm pretty sure that's just what people say when they have nothing else.

But in the last few years I've decided that being known as nice is far from a bad thing.  I decided that I should care less about that, since trust me I remember it very clearly to this day.  Anyways I decided that I need to make sure to be nice to everyone so that I could be known as nice, even if it wasn't a big deal to be known for.

So today when I heard about this conversation my friend had with a guy I don't think I've ever really talked to, I was extremely flattered.  People think I'm nice, and hard working, and someone who could probably end up as a teacher.

Wow. Anyways this just made my day. Like SO MUCH. :)