Friday, September 09, 2005

Good Guys Always Win...Eventually

You've heard the sayings, "Good guys finish last," and "Bad guys always win," or other variations. The basic theme is that being a nice stand-up guy doesn't necessarily get you what you want, and often finds you on the sidelines watching someone less deserving running away with the prize. So why do the bad guys seem to win more often than not? Why does the jerk who takes credit for everybody else's work get the promotion? Why does the possessive cheating asshole always get the girl? The number one reason is that these "bad guys" are aggressive. They know what they want, and the go right for it. Good guys too often sit back hoping or even expecting that they're passiveness will be seen as genuine patience. They want to be seen as people who don't put pressure on others and they want to be rewarded for it. They're mentality is, "if I do good, good will come to me."

There is some truth to that. Quick story: A lady was involved with two guys. One guy was an all around decent guy the other was a selfish rich alcoholic asshole prick. The good guy loved the lady with everything he had. The bad guy barely loved anything but himself. When the choice had to be made the lady ended up with the bad guy, because he was the one who forced the decision. The good guy couldn't do anything but what he knew. So he continued living the best way he could. Meanwhile the lady and her man shacked up, and as time went by it was obvious that there was no real love there. In fact it brought the lady to massive depression. The good guy kept being a good guy. Eventually the lady was pushed over the edge and only to find that her good guy was waiting and she was happy that he was. It took almost a full decade for the good guy to finally win. The two are now happily married.

There's a lesson here for the good guys of the world to take from the bad. Be aggressive. If you want to get what you want sooner rather than later you have to go after it. There's too much sitting around going on and that's exactly why the good guys finish last. Contrary to the beliefs of some, you do not have to be bad to be aggressive. In fact there may even be an argument that these so called good guys may just be lazy scared bad guys hiding behind good, the same way bad guys hide behind straightforward confidence. GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT. Stop expecting that the good will come from yours. Part of deserving what you want is fighting for it.

But if you're too stubborn, and you want to wait and see. There may still be hope for you, because good guys really do win. It'll just take a really long fucking time.

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