I Used to be Nice but I Gave It Up

Leslie Ann Costello
10 min readOct 1, 2019
Young woman with curly red hair is smiling and presenting a bouquet of pink and mauve flowers.
Nice woman bringing flowers

My therapist once told me that being nice was overrated. It took me awhile but I ultimately saw the light and I’ve given up being nice, thinking about being nice, or even caring whether I am nice or not. Nice has become irrelevant to me.

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Leslie Ann Costello

Psychologist and bioenergetic psychotherapist, writer. Occasional kitchen magician. Find my fiction under my pen name, Annie M. Ballard