What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. – Oprah Winfrey

I almost wasn’t going to write today because you get what you give.  This is just a common sense thing.  Then I came to school today and I had a kid in an absolutely foul mood giving me a huge amount of attitude.  I didn’t give it back – it’s wrong, and it’s not going to solve anything.  I was calm, compassionate and polite, and still I got attitude.  Why?  I wasn’t giving attitude, I was getting it back.  Well sometimes, we have to take into account what may have happened prior.  Which is what was going on in this case.  The student in question had an issue with someone else and I was the next person to come into contact with them.

How do you deal then?  When you’re getting back exactly opposite of what you’re giving out?  To me, that answer is super simple.  You keep giving out the good stuff, because in the end, you will get it back.  It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but it will happen.  Please don’t think I’m little Mary Sunshine walking around with a smile on my face and the Disney birds chirping around behind me and putting wreaths of flowers in my hair.  Please, I suffer from resting bitch face, I’m sarcastic as hell and an evil bitch monster of death in the morning.  But I always try to treat people nicely.  Even when they’re giving me crap, I try to be nice, especially in the face of crankiness.  I don’t always succeed, but I try.

When it comes right down to it, you see it every day.  If you treat someone nicely, chances are they’re going to be nice to you.  If you present a positive attitude to the world, you’re going to get positive goodness right back.  It doesn’t cost anything, and it’s just as easy to be happy as it is to be cranky, so why not go for happy?  After all, you get what you give.