tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post1980476755306365536..comments2024-03-18T10:29:46.055+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: Saint or Sinner?Ken Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-25706613523549950932018-06-12T05:03:51.115+01:002018-06-12T05:03:51.115+01:00I’m a nice person. I’m not boasting when I say tha...I’m a nice person. I’m not boasting when I say that. I’m not saying I’m a nicer person than you—that wouldn’t be nice—but I am saying that, given a chance to be nice or nasty, I’d lump for nice every time. Actually it’s more than that: I wouldn’t know <i>how</i> to be nasty. I mean I’ve seen people being nasty and I’m sure I could fake it if my life depended on it but my heart wouldn’t be in it. This doesn’t mean I’m a good person and I’ve done some bad things in my life but I like to think I’ve been nice about being bad; at the very least I’ve had the decency to feel bad about being bad. But the truth is I don’t really get nasty people. I know they exist but I’m not sure why they exist. What good do they do? I’m not saying people don’t have a right to get angry—there’s a lot out there to piss off even the sweetest of the sweet—but there’s nothing added by being nasty. I have the same problem with laziness. I know there are lazy people out there but I don’t know how to be lazy. Idleness kills me. Tiredness I get but not wilful indolence. I was called indolent once and forty-odd years on it still stings. I’ve never been told not to be nasty though. I consider that an achievement, something to be proud of. I have been called names before—it’s impossible to grow up in Scotland without being called a few ****ing adjectives, verbs and nouns—but you learn very quickly not to take it to heart. Like with you that lady would’ve had no effect on me. Other than a few moments of disappointment. For her. Not that she’d care but you know how it is with us nice people.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com