387. Being nice

Here we go, exam season is here again. And here I am sitting in a classroom staring at the clock that must be slow. Maybe I should go out in the corridor, ask for someone somewhere to find batteries (2 x AA) and bring them back to me asap. Then I would get a chair, climb on it and remove the clock from the wall and change the batteries. That would be some entertainment for the youth with the blank looks and the bored attitudes. And then at least I could stare at the time going by, lose this constant feeling that I am in time warp and the loud tick-ticking of the cheap clock would keep us all company.

So here I am sitting at my tiny desk my chin in my hands and I stare and stare at the place where the clock should be and I am thinking: 4 hours of nothing. Hopefully they will be done and gone in two. Surely they won't take four hours to write about these complicated convoluted extracts of books they've never heard of, in poor French full of spelling mistakes. (I know I've checked, the first spelling mistakes are always in line 1 or line 2.)

So my mind strays and I remember that I have changed my new year resolution. My new resolution was to make an effort and be nice to everyone. But I keep forgetting that I have to be nice and I sent people packing and then I think oh no! My new year resolution! And I feel bad because I cannot even keep a single resolution that I myself set to me on my own! So clearly that was a stupid resolution and I need to change it. I have had a long inner debate with myself and me and we have come to accept a change of resolution in month 5. I am now to make no effort whatsoever to be nice to people. And therefore being a little sharp now and then is fine. 

By the end of day one with my new constitutional rights I realise I have been nice to people even to people I really didn't want to be nice to so there you are I am a nice person after all and had I not made a change in my 2024 resolution I would never have been certain about this.