I just wanted to rant for a moment about some things people do that just annoys me.

So thanks to my personality, I'm someone who is very forgiving. I guess you could say I'm "nice" in that I don't judge people very often. I instead try my best to understand everyone cause, well, it's just who I am.

In some sense, this does mean I could be seen as being "gullible" or "TOO nice". I didn't want to have to do this, but I'm going to have to use a real life example. So there was a girl in one of my classes, who didn't turn up to quite a few lessons. Using Occams razor, everyone all assumed she was skipping class just cause she couldn't be bothered to come. But i later found out that this wasn't the case. She was ill. Very ill. So ill that She was bedridden on some days. Even though she did pretty much say this quite openly, I noticed no one really believed her. But I did. I had a connection with her that no one else in my class had with her, because let's be honest, The didn't really like her, and so they didn't exactly treat her the same as everyone else. I was the one who stayed by her side when everyone else didn't.

When she wasn't there, some times even when she was there, I heard people trying to 'prove she was faking it' :
"I saw her at the train station yesterday and she was perfectly fine!"- yes, cause A. She was probably on painkillers, B. Due to the nature of her illness, she could be fine one day and bedridden the next. I'm pretty sure she told me that once.
"She just said she wasn't meant to be dancing but she is."- she just wanted to fit in with everyone else and help them rather than disrupting the rehearsals, by not dancing.
"But remember that one time when she told us she just couldn't be bothered to come in?"- she might have said that to hide her illness. She likely didn't just want to tell everyone about her illness right there and thought it would be easier to just say she couldn't be bothered to come in.

I could come back all their "excuses" with a reason. But they clearly didn't think of that. Instead they chose the easy option- assuming she was faking and hating her for it. But that's just not me. I knew things other people didn't.
I saw her take painkillers right in front of me. So your telling me she went through the effort of taking painkillers in front of me just to fake an illness?
I sat with her while everyone else was talking to each other and ignoring us and I could see the frustration and tears in her eyes as she said she felt bad for not being there and making it harder for the rest of us having to work around her absence.

I would rather believe someone whose faking than not believe someone who isn't faking. Because that would hurt them more. Struggling to get everyone to believe that their suffering while they all just deny it and dismiss it without even hearing them out. That is way worse than me being fooled by someone who's faking, in my book.

Instead they mock her behind her back every time she doesn't turn up. It honestly hurt me. I could tell she knew that everyone else thought she was faking. I don't know what it would take to convince them. It's not like she's gonna come in and just explain her whole medical issue to everyone. No, it's a personal issue that you wouldn't just want to tell a whole class about.

It hurts me to think about how much she could be suffering while everyone just laughs at her. It sickens me. But who knows, maybe she was faking it this whole time and I'll look like an idiot. But I'd rather that than leaving her to suffer in silence.

Nobody's perfect. I'm not saying I loved her cause I definitely didn't. She had her personality traits I didn't like, but so does everyone else. I'm not perfect either. I don't want anyone to feel bad or guilty from this. I just want it to be a chance for people to think about it and better themselves. Stop leaving people out just because of that one thing you don't like about them. Because no one deserves to suffer because of that.