RE: Give what you get?
July 18, 2017 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2017 at 6:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 18, 2017 at 5:32 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:Not really what I was aiming at, lol. More along the lines of..personally, finding my extension of kindness to be arbitrary or capricious. I;ve been taken advantage of in kindness, but I'm not a nice person or a high road person..so it;s usually a mistake that a person makes once and never again.(July 18, 2017 at 4:38 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Who puts any thought into this, legit question. How often does anyone find themselves doing a sort of mental calculus of kindness?
People who are taken advantage of, that's who. If you've never been taken advantage of when you've shown kindness to mean people, congratulations.
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