Life is rotational and very large. There is always an opening through which someone can help one person or many people to stand on their two legs again in life. Mostly when the wicked wind of life's uncertainty blows to the direction of either your loved ones, family members, friends or even on entire strangers whom you do not know from Adam. You can really help others.....!!
Giving to others makes, the world go round, but don't allow yourself to be taken for granted
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"For this prompt # 111, "LOOKING AWAY", tell us of a time you looked away from helping someone. What was your reason?. How did you feel after turning the person down? Is there anytime it's fine to look away from helping someone"
"Or rendering assistance of any kind to people, if yes, tell us, at what point that is, and how we can safely go about it"
There are always some "human milk" in our hearts, flowing and demandng us to lend helping hands to other people, which means, we should stand in the gap for some people, it doesn't matter how much money, material things, or anything at all, big or small. At those times, we are helping someone else to move forward in life and it's very phenomenal, and acceptable. It makes us proper human beings.
Nobody gets anything from an empty pocket, therefore, giving of all sorts are valuable, nothing of value should be wasted or should be regarded as useless.
*I have been helping a particular person with lots of different items from food stuffs to financial support. This is a grown adult but has no job at that moment. Then recently, I discovered from her speech of a kind of ingratitude and twist of words like lying.
The truth is that, she told me of a certain amount of money that an individual gave to her free. I never knew she was lying about the amount to me. Accidentally, that individual who gave her the money on his own as we're chatting some days later, exposed to me, the huge amount he gave to that fellow freely, it was triple amount to what she had told me.
Again, this giver told me that this very human being we have been showing pity on by always giving some stuffs to, went as far as telling this very person not to let me know that he had been giving her money so that I would not reduce my own designated amount that I had always been giving to her.
When I was told this.., I paused, pondered, became very angry at her..., reasons being that I felt she lied to me about the true amount she was given, and again, she went as far as telling this fellow never to let me know that she had been given some money from him so that I may not reduce my own amount to her.
I immediately, called and confronted her about this ugly development, she was shocked on how i got to know all the details, I made her know that that very giver told me everything.
Sincerely, this made me to look away from helping or giving her anything because I was just being kind to her, she is capable of having some skills, doing some jobs and fending for herself but she has nothing doing and likes procrastinating anything she supposed to have done immediately. I began to reason everything as a mockery to my personality, and became unperturbed about she and her numerous needs, I stopped giving to her as before.
This is a life story that happened not too long ago.
I learned some lessons from it. I stopped giving to her believing that by this scenario, my safety with her is in danger, since she could lie to me so that I could continue giving her. Where as I was ready to give to her
*I stopped giving to her because I noticed she doesn't want to help herself to come out from lack and wants. She's very healthy but refused to work, upon that one, she has created a pattern of deciet and lies to keep obtaining by tricks from me.
Picture from my phone
*I totally stopped giving to her after all these my discoveries about her.
*Did you know that now, she has picked up a job in a poultry farm near where she lives. My not giving to her has led her into progress in life.... It's positive. She has been forced to find a job and is now staying at her job.
This is my findings and answers to this week's prompt #111 "Looking Away".
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https://ecency.com/@hive-reachout/hivereachout-weekly-prompt-111looking-away--hgi.
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Second image is a picture from my phone.