This is my tribute to the nice girls. To the nice girls who are
overlooked, who become friends and nothing more, who spend hours
fixating upon their looks and their personalities and their actions
because it must be they that are doing something wrong. This
is for the girls who don't give it up on the first date, who don't want
to play mind games, who provide a comforting hug and a supportive
audience for a story they've heard a thousand times. This is
for the girls who understand that they aren't perfect and that the guys
they're interested in aren't either, for the girls who flirt and laugh
and worry and obsess over the slightest glance, whisper, touch, because
somehow they are able to keep alive that hope that maybe... maybe this
time he'll understand. This is an homage to the girls who laugh loud
and often, who are comfortable in skirts and sweats and combat boots,
who care more than they should for guys who don't deserve their
attention. This is for those girls who have been in the
trenches, who have watched other girls time and time again fake up and
make up and fuck up the guys in their lives without saying a word. This
is for the girls who have been there from the beginning and have heard
the right words of advice, from "there are plenty of fish in the sea,"
to "time heals all wounds." This is to honor those girls who know that
guys are just as scared as they are, who know that they deserve better,
who are seeking to find it.This is for the girls who have never
been in love, but know that it's an experience that they don't want to
miss out on. For the girls who have sought a night with friends and
been greeted by a night of catcalling, rude L0VESzs and explicit
invitations that they'd rather not have experienced. This is
for the girls who have spent their weekends sitting on the sidelines of
a beer pong tournament or a case race, or playing Florence Nightingale
for a vomiting guy friend or a comatose crush, who have received a
drunk phone call just before dawn from someone who doesn't care enough
to invite them over but is still willing to pass out in their bed. This
is for the girls who have left sad song lyrics in their away messages,
who have tried to make someone understand through a subliminally
appealing profile, who have time and time again dropped their male
friend hint after hint after hint only to watch him chase after the
first blonde girl in a skirt. This is for the girls who have
been told that they're too good or too smart or too pretty, who have
been given compliments as a way of breaking off a relationship, who
have ever been told they are only wanted as a friend.This one's
for the girls who you can take home to mom, but won't because it's
easier to sleep with a whore than foster a relationship; this is for
the girls who have been led on by words and kisses and touches, all of
which were either only true for the moment, or never real to begin
with. This is for the girls who have allowed a guy into their
head and heart and bed, only to discover that he's just not ready, he's
just not over her, he's just not looking to be tied down; this is for
the girls who believe the excuses because it's easier to believe that
it's not that they don't want you, it's that they don't want anyone. This
is for the girls who have had their hearts broken and their hopes
dashed by someone too cavalier to have cared in the first place; this
is for the nights spent dissecting every word and syllable and
inflection in his speech, for the nights when you've returned home
alone, for the nights when you've seen from across the room him leaning
a little too close, or standing a little too near, or talking a little
too softly for the girl he's with to be a random hookup. This
is for the girls who have endured party after party in his presence,
finally having realized that it wasn't that he didn't want a
relationship: it was that he didn't want you. I honor you for the night
his dog died or his grandmother died or his little brother crashed his
car and you held him, thinking that if you only comforted him just
right, or said the right words, or rubbed his back in the right way
then perhaps he'd realize what it was that he already had. This is for
the night you realized that it would never happen, and the sunrise you
saw the next morning after failing to sleep.This is for the "I
really like you, so let's still be friends" comment after you read more
into a situation than he ever intended; this is for never realizing
that when you choose friends, you seldom choose those which make you
cry yourself to sleep. This is for the hugs you've received from your
female friends, for the nights they've reassured you that you are
beautiful and intelligent and amazing and loyal and truly worthy of a
great guy; this is for the despair you all felt as you sat in the
aftermath of your tears, knowing that that night the only companionship
you'd have was with a pillow and your teddy bear. This is for
the girls who have been used and abused, who have endured what he was
giving because at least he was giving something; this is for the
stupidity of the nights we've believed that something was better than
nothing, though his something was nothing we'd have ever wanted. This
is for the girls who have been satisified with too little and who have
learned never to expect anything more: for the girls who don't think
that they deserve more, because they've been conditioned for so long to
accept the scraps thrown to them by guys.This is what I don't
understand. Men sit and question and whine that girls are only
attracted to the mean guys, the guys who berate them and belittle them
and don't appreciate them and don't want them; who use them for sex and
think of little else than where their next conquest will be made. Men
complain that they never meet nice girls, girls who are genuinely
interested and compelling, who are intelligent and sweet and smart and
beautiful; men despair that no good women want to share in their lives,
that girls play mindgames, that girls love to keep them hanging. Yet,
men, I ask you: were you to meet one of these genuinely interested,
thrillingly compelling, interesting and intelligent and sweet and
beautiful and smart girls, were you to give her your number and wait
for her to call... and if you were to receive a call from her the next
day and she, in her truthful, loyal, intelligent and straightforward
nice girl fashion, were to tell you that she finds you intriguing and
attractive and interesting and worth her time and perhaps material from
which she could fashion a boyfriend, would you or would you not
immediately call your friends to tell them of the "stalker chick" you'd
met the night prior, who called you and wore her heart on her sleeve
and told the truth? And would you, or would you not, refuse to make
plans with her, speak with her, see her again, and once again return to
the bar or club or party scene and search once more for this "nice
girl" who you just cannot seem to find? Because therein lies the truth,
guys: we nice girls are everywhere. But you're not looking for a nice
girl. You're not looking for someone genuinely interested in your
intramural basketball game, or your anatomy midterm grade, or that
argument you keep having with your father; you're looking for a quick
fix, a night when you can pretend to have a connection with another
human being which is just as disposable as the condom you were using
during it.So don't say you're on the lookout for nice girls,
guys, when you pass us up on every step you take. Sometimes we go
undercover; sometimes we go in disguise: sometimes when that girl in
the low cut shirt or the too tight miniskirt won't answer your
catcalls, sometimes you're looking at a nice girl in whore's clothing -
- we might say we like the attention, we might blush and giggle and
turn back to our friends, but we're all thinking the same thing: "This
isn't me. Tomorrow morning, I'll be wearing a teeshirt and flannel
shorts, I'll have slept alone and I'll be making my hungover best
friend breakfast. See through the disguise. See me." You never do. Why?
Because you only see the exterior, you only see the slutty girl who
welcomes those advances. You don't want the nice girl.. so don't say
you're looking for a relationship: relationships take time and energy
and intent, there things we're willing to extend - - but in return,
we're looking for compassion and loyalty and trust, there things you
never seem willing to express. Maybe nice guys finish last, but in the
race they're running they're chasing after the whores and the sluts and
the easy-targets... the nice girls are waiting at the finish line with
water and towels and a congradulatory hug (and yes, if she's a nice
girl and she likes you, the sweatiness probably won't matter), hoping
against hope that maybe you'll realize that they're the ones that you
want at the end of that silly race.So maybe it won't last
forever. Maybe some of those guys in that race will turn in their
running shoes and make their way to the concession stand where we're
waiting; however, until that happens, we still have each other, that
silly race to watch, and all the chocolate we can eat (because what's a
concession stand at a race without some chocolate?)
well these past few days have been kool yeturday i had early release at
11:35 i think so i just walked home and took care of my poor
borther..yeah right lol jk no he is in pain i hope he feels better.and
yesturday i had a really nice nap so i was in a good mood lol and Nat
wanted to go out for lunch after school yesturday so we eant to Yokos
and its soo kool good food ohh yeah lol a little expensive though but
still i would go again and when we were there i saw Carrie and jody
there and they were eatting lol yeah and then me and Nat went to a
jewleryt store and i really want some of those earrings lol then i went
home took that nap and today i went to school at 8:15 and got out at
9:45 which was awsome we watched SAILOR MOON lol and then i came
home and kicked my brother off the comptuer and i have to get offline
soon because well Javis graduated and his graduation and dinner is
today so i have to be ready by 6:30 yup okay well i guess thats all i
have to say i love you all buh bye TTFN ta t afor now *mwah*