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Originally Posted by supermonkey
Here's the deal; this guy I know violated an agreement and then, to top it off, started a rumor that I liked this girl. So, I vowed revenge. I started it off by giving him half a brownie that I convinced him l had messed with. I was going to keep it going, but he puked, so I had to fess up that I did nothing. This has worked to my advantage, as now he has been lured into a false sense of security. Unfortunatly, now I have no idea what to do to him. I was thinking of slipping something disgusting into his backpack, but that might not work. Hep me think of something good to do to him. just know that he is stronger than me, more popular than me, but I am faster, and I'm smarter. Also, I have two people willing to help me, but they are weaker, less popular, and slower than him.
IMHO you got the wrong angle to this. I know your mad about this guy, and thats normal but hear me out and ill teach you how to deal with this A) like an adult, and B) in a way that will make you seem better than him to everyone else
it took me a
long time to figure this out and I had to learn it the hardway, so do yourself a favor and take my advice:
Be nice to everyone as often as you can be. It pays off tenfold (not an exaggeration, but definitely an estimate). It might take a while to see the results, but the best things in life build slowly and then pay off huge (like money, which is something that ppl dont seem to get). Like your chance of winning the lottery is practically nill, but you can become a millionaire by saving and investing, which takes a LONG time (20+ years) but in the end you will have a million dollars and the guy who blew all of his saving on lottery tickets over time will have lost a lot of money.
This strategy to life and dealing with people is a modification of 'kill em with kindness', except more encompassing.
So heres the logic:
- By being nice to everyone, you will make your life easier in every way possible. In general, people return kindness with kindness.
- If you are nice to everyone, even if they arent nice to you, people will be less likely to be mean to you.
- the people worth getting to know will be nice back. It also makes it very easy to sort out the cool people from the dicks. If you are nice to someone and they are a dick back, then you know you prolly dont want to be friends with this people. The people that you are nice to, and they are nice back, then its 100% clear that this person is worth your time.
- When people are mean to you, the people that have you have been nice to will be there to support you and maybe even back you.
- The girls worth going after don't like mean/revengeful people. Girls WILL notice that you are not mean to anyone and it will be a million times easier to be friends with them or get to know them (literally), and then get to 'know' them (biblical sense).
- a lot of people do stuff just to get a rise out of you, by showing that you dont react to this kind of bullshit they likely wont do it to you
When I figured this out, and actively implemented it into my life, my popularity started to boom (this was back in highschool). I went from being liked only by the people that really knew me, to being idolized by people from neighboring schools and younger classes. (no joke or exaggeration, i literally had people who id never met before from other schools wave at me)
You don't even have to be overly outgoing or anything, though I would say that being outgoing will come naturally with everyone being nice to you and the resulting socializations.
Tips for practicing this strategy:
- If someone asks for help, and you know how to help them without severely inconveniencing yourself, lend them a hand. its really that simple and its all you have to do on your part.
- if someone is a dick to you, let it slide and just be chill about it. Either say something funny or ignore it. This would be the toughest part, cuz in HS your initial reaction is to maintain your pride immediately by saying/doing something witty and dickish back to whoever. But trust me. It'll just make you look like a dick too. This isnt to say that you should let people walk all over you. If someone does something to you, make it your best effort to truly not let it bother you. And then if you cant help but be bothered call em out on it. Cuz you can make someone look like a douche instead of 'cool' as they might have been intending really quick by pointing out how uncool their actions really are. The 'cool' trends these days seem to be about pacifism (so not reacting negatively to negative things), honesty and understanding (calling people out on their misdeeds towards you, and perhaps trying to gain some common ground where you convince them to chill out). The "understanding" part of all of this is kinda advanced, so dont just jump into this right off the bat cuz people also get pissed off when you try to falsely understand someone. But before you start trying to understand people, you must remember that EVERYONE is human, capable of making mistakes, and succeptable to emotional traumas that affect how they behave and treat others. If you assume that people are being dicks for the sake of being dicks, you will lead a rather pessimistic life and there is no point in trying to be nice. But if you learn/understand that people are assholes because they are bothered by something in their life, like they dont get enough attention from friends/parents, or they dont feel loved, or they are insecure about themselves so that they deflect onto others, you will realize that being a dick back is not going to solve the issue but make it worse.
And finally, I would say, once you have achieved all this, theres times and places where you will actually be able to be a dick back and it will work in your favour.
You'll know when the right time is, because you'll feel it. And the person who was a dick to you will look like nothing but a dick, and the people around you who already like you will support you even if what you said in return wasn't that funny/witty.
You'll notice that most of what ive mentioned is talked about in most religious texts as something to practice, though the reasoning is less logical and more about god things. But the ideas are true.
Being nice is always a good thing, it will never fail you unless you start letting people walk all over you, which really is another issue. You will always face assholes in your day to day life, but how you deal with these people is what will define you and your relationships with others. Adopting this strategy is not something that you do over night. It takes willpower and time, and you must do your best to practice it until it becomes a natural part of the way you socialize with people.
I'd bet you anything that if you follow what i'm saying, after a year this guy will be really nice to you, and even if you don't want to be friends with him, he, like others will respect you and treat you with respect.