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Dearest reader, here's a old piece I stumbled on lately, lemme know what you do think, do you believe people are just nice ?



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I don’t believe in good people.
Everyone is carrying an agenda,
a second mouth behind the first,
an ulterior motive tucked neatly beneath their tongue.

So when he smiles, I wonder,
what is happening inside his head?
What storms are rehearsing behind his eyelids?
And does that smile even make it past his lips,
or does it die quietly in his teeth
like a secret that refused to be spoken?

I don’t believe in nice people.
People are not just nice.
They are polished blades wrapped in velvet,
endlessly plotting, constantly arranging their intentions
like chess pieces on a table you never knew you were sitting at.

There is always a catch.
A hook hidden in the handshake.
A price tag hanging behind the compliment.
A contract written in invisible ink.

I haven’t met so many people,
And I don’t know everything,
but this much I know, the people who have hurt me the most
all shared one thing in common.

They were nice.

Nice with the kind of kindness
that feels like shelter until you realize the roof is made of paper.

Everybody has an agenda, you and I both.
So nobody is just nice.
Let’s not be naive,

Because sometimes,
nice is not a personality.
Nice is a strategy.

And I…
I don’t believe in nice people.


@favvy_Okwansđź–¤.


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