An Ode to the Nice Guys

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Ode to the Nice Guys​

This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and b**ching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style.

This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewildered female friends back from parties and never take advantage once they’re at her door, for the guys who accompany girls to bars as buffers against the rest of the creepy male population, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for compliments but give them out anyway, for the guys who always play by the rules in a game where the rules favor cheaters, for the guys who are accredited as boyfriend material but somehow don’t end up being boyfriends, for all the nice guys who are overlooked, underestimated, and unappreciated, for all the nice guys who are manipulated, misled, and unjustly abandoned, this is for you.

This is for that time she left 40 urgent messages on your cell phone, and when you called her back, she spent three hours painstakingly dissecting two sentences her boyfriend said to her over dinner. And even though you thought her boyfriend was a chump and a jerk, you assured her that it was all ok and she shouldn’t worry about it. This is for that time she interrupted the best killing spree you’d ever orchestrated in GTA3 to rant about a rumor that romantically linked her and the guy she thinks is the most repulsive person in the world. And even though you thought it was immature and you had nothing against the guy, you paused the game for two hours and helped her concoct a counter-rumor to spread around the floor. This is also for that time she didn’t have a date, so after numerous vows that there was nothing “serious†between the two of you, she dragged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was awful, and she flirted shamelessly with you, justifying each fit of reckless teasing by announcing to everyone: “oh, but we’re just friends!†And even though you were invited purely as a symbolic warm body for her ego, you went anyways. Because you’re nice like that.

The nice guys don’t often get credit where credit is due. And perhaps more disturbing, the nice guys don’t seem to get laid as often as they should. And I wish I could logically explain this trend, but I can’t. From what I have observed on campus and what I have learned from talking to friends at other schools and in the workplace, the only conclusion I can form is that many girls are just illogical, manipulative b**ches. Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when presented with such a specimen, they say irrational, confusing things such as “oh, he’s too nice to date†or “he would be a good boyfriend but he’s not for me†or “he already puts up with so much from me, I couldn’t possibly ask him out!†or the most frustrating of all: “no, it would ruin our friendship.†Yet, they continue to lament the lack of datable men in the world, and they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sympathize and apologize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are beyond my ability to fathom. I can’t figure out why the connection breaks down between what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (I’m going to sleep with this complete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phenomenon doesn’t last forever. There are definitely many girls who grow out of that train of thought and realize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for granted. The tricky part is finding those girls, and even trickier, finding the ones that are single.

So, until those girls are found, I propose a toast to all the nice guys. You know who you are, and I know you’re sick of hearing yourself described as ubiquitously nice. But the truth of the matter is, the world needs your patience in the department store, your holding open of doors, your party escorting services, your propensity to be a sucker for a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tolerate, for all the situations where you are the faceless, nameless hero, my accolades, my acknowledgement, and my gratitude go out to you. You do have credibility in this society, and your well deserved vindication is coming.

- Fu-zu Jen, SEAS/WH, 2003

Ode to the Nice Guys
This rant was written for the Wharton Undergraduate Journal
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6pack said:
nice guys always loose out on the fun.
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Wrong... nice guys always have the best fun, cause they don't whine or b**ch about small small things. They make best out of every situation.

Only the world doesn't register how much fun we have, cause all they can see small things... little inconveniences and so on. :)

Nice guys knows how to have fun, even though that fun doesn't fit in standard definition of rest of the world. :hap2:
 
Man, its not that girls don't dig the nice guys, its just that they don't want to be with someone who is socially awkward (like a person who hardly talks or is talked about). My point is, nice guys don't always finish last. If he does, he probably isn't even trying.
 
Nikhil said:
I'm a nice guy.

Any girls interested? I want to make frieaundship with you.
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^^ fail.

: hiii friends am cool guy fr evr.am cool n i like to do friendship with everyone its really fun.anywayz come soon n friendship with me.because u cant get a friend like me kkkkkk.

*.*.*.*.* WELLCOME TO My SiGNATERE .*.*.*.*.*

i am wat i am.n i lik he way i am.
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^^ win. :P
 
actually you dont want to take advantage of drunken female friends .unless you want puke all over you

and its fraindship
 
Been there done that. I can also be a real jerk if I want to but everytime I see that smile and hear that cute voice I can't help but loose my "bad boy" demeanor. It hurts, yes, especially when you are so madly in love with that person but all she could do is go yap..yap..yap..yap about her boyfriend. You want to be indifferent to her, even rude at times, why? Because you are tired of hearing about that jerk and his antics, because the mental agony you suffer from it exceeds any physical pain that you may have endured in your life. You are tired of being just a friend, you want something more from her to the extent that you start devising plans to ruin her relationship. But then you hear that angel voice in your head, "Why would you wanna do that to the love of your life, is this really how you want to win her heart?". Now you feel disgusted with yourself to even have thought about such a plan. Love is all about sacrifice they say and sacrifices you have made. You can't take it anymore, you want to end it all, but then you remind yourself, "Hey atleast, I am lucky enough to be with the person that I love". Yes, you want to hold her hands in public, you want to shut her up and just kiss her when she is acting all cute, you want her to hug and kiss you when you are feeling down, you want to sleep with her and wake up with her and pamper her by making her breakfast and you want to be recognized as the man in her life. But hey, remember when you read that love is all about sacrifices, well these are just the sacrifices you have to make to be with her. Its not exactly what you want, but its atleast better than nothing.

A great man once said, "Its better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all". Its true in your case, and you better be thankful about it.
 
i admit i was one of the nice guys , but i broke them up and i went on other better things in life :P muahahhhahahaha
 
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