RE: Contest | 25-Word-Comment - Monkey Business | Aid - 6 Steem
Sunday morning, it's Monday evening by now.. I did think about Sunday and the Sunday preach that was once hosted on this platform. I believe one of the freewrite prompts is preaching...
It is hard to find the balance between giving and denying but I think those who easily give also have a problem saying no which is a problem and with that, you do attract abusive people, parasites so to say which makes one believe all people are the same (and we love the dogs above all).
Jesus was like John and if you ask me John just like Bob sacrificed a lot. Many stand on the barricades to speak out and many do not even know they take the fall or have to take the fall (being backstabbed).
What if it's not about aid, being helpful, or humanity but about setting boundaries, being allowed to say NO, and "survival of the fittest"?
If you ask me human species isn't very strong and all skills to survive are beaten out of us, so if someone tries, scams we call it bad but is it?
We should prepare for the Sunday speech or the Friday
The benefit of the doubt.. makes a great theme... I hope I remember it.
I agree with you. It is hard to find a balance and I totally understand how one's inability to say no seems like an invitation to be abused, but saying no also comes with its own risks. Not necessarily because of some weird la la land notion of illusionary obligation, or because you're supposed to deny yourself, but because of a seemingly accumulative kind of psychological blowback. You know, like feeding that hateful little creature in the back in your head. The one that grows and grows until it eventually takes over. Then one day you catch yourself grinding over some long distant past bullshit and realize you're just some old fart doing the dishes. Life is too short for that, I'd say.
The challenge of saying no, or in terms of survival, is finding a way to fight back without losing yourself in the hate. Ironically enough I figure the same goes for the scammers, because they too think they're justified into doing whatever they're doing. Everbody does. We all think we're the good guys, more or less. So I guess maybe they are also just lashing out against an unfair world. And it is. Life is brutal and still, I'm living a pretty good life in comparison. So even if I end up saying no I'm not sure if I hold it up against them, because we're all just victims of our circumstances and I guess their despiration for quick buck is indicative of their situation being worse than mine (in one way or the other).
Either way, I reckon you already know when to give and when to take. It's just your head that's in the way, or your heart maybe. Like you feel like you should give a person something, then you make siginificant contribution and instead of feeling warm and fuzzy there's just... nothing. Seems a bit like that love-hate dichotomy where one might end up being the basis for the other. So maybe it's less about balance but temperance. I guess in my case it helps how I'm kind of a deadbeat myself, so even if you wanted to scam me I don't have much to begin with. Can't give what I don't have.