Cruel to be kind?

Throughout your life, you will come across many kinds of people. There are those that touch your life, make your life miserable, irritates you, makes your day, spoils your morning and many more. I would like to quote a line from Forrest Gump..."life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get." True, you might get milky chocolates, bitter chocolates or strawberry or even vodka flavoured chocolates. But at least, they are more predictable. The label tells you what kind of chocolates you gonna expect when you open it up. That's roughly how you decide which one to buy. I wish that you can read people like a book...just like how you can tell what kind of chocolates you gonna taste when you unwrap the box.

Sadly, that is not the case. There are those people who irritates you to the max...but they just wanna cheer you up at the end of the day. And those are the people who really cares about you. And there are those who treats you really well...but in the end you know they are putting on a mask and faking their sincerity. All this while, i have always been as real as i possibly can. I enjoy making people happy, always wanting to cheer them up and putting a smile on their face. In happy or sad situations, i always try to be cheerful so that others will not worry. I always wanted to be strong for people around me...my friends, my family. But sometimes in the end, you get hurt for showing people who you are. I was always nice to people...too nice sometimes. At the end, people took advantage of it, exploit my kindness and acted cruelly to me. Sometimes it really makes me wonder, should i continue being my jolly happy self...whether real or not, or should i put up a mask just like others to protect myself from those who tried to hurt me. I feel so fragile.

"Please all, and you will please none." -Aesop-