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Lesson #338 Choose your battles
The "entitlement mindset" sure strikes a nerve with me. Out of my book of lessons and stories, I have one very favourite story which I love sharing with my near and dear for them to learn what they should not be. I think I may even share it with my future kids.
Earlier this year I had met a woman, pleasant to the eye, middle-aged who at first, came across as "nice".
Who, may I add, (I know, I am always adding) came to me first, she asked for my number first. She was piqued after asking me, "what do you do?" You know the entitlement, "can I do it too?".
Well, aren't we all nice when we want something?
In summary, she became fairly acquainted with me as she wanted to sign up for a service I offer.
A master at playing the card of sympathy.
"I am divorced, I have a young daughter who has special needs, please help me."
Me, of course being the very naive, "wear my heart on the sleeve" and very dim kind of person, decided to go all out to help this woman.
"Please come over, I'll help you", Hell I'll even do your "mock interview" for you.
I do agree, I am as thick as two short planks - sometimes I do lack common sense.
You need the job to make money for yourself but I shall gallantly jump on my high horse and do it for you, so you can smile with me, come over for dinners, eye my partner, throw some charms.
The funny thing is Dear, a husband or a boyfriend is always replaceable, a person can always survive without a husband or a partner but you cannot selfishly whip a person's bread and butter out of their hands.
I was away, after becoming annoyed at being a lapdog, dealing with my own life.
You further played your hand at telling me "I don't see money in my account and I'm frustrated after spending my holiday bonus, could you please come now to my house and sort out my laptop or I'd like all my money back" and by all her money, she meant a measly R***. You spent your money and it's my problem?
Bearing in no mind that my data, time and my influence had been used to introduce you to my program etc.
Out of sheer spite that I did not dance to said tunes, she had become vindictive and contacted my company (you know the usual "call your manager type") saying I am unefficeint, I have not helped at all. Which was to her unfortunate insensibility as the matter was taken up and I was cleared based on facts.
Dear, if you are an educated "lawyer", "doctor" or "teacher", could you not have mustered the courage or garnered the skills to do your own interview? Shouldn't you have the brain capacity to read through your training and follow it yourself?
My biggest peeve is someone trying to cripple another's source of income, income that's not feeding me luxury but rather I use it for far more constructive things, you fed me stories about your shortcomings? But have you listened to mine? Do you know I have old parents? Are their needs always tendered to?
Did you think you could walk all over me because I am quite younger than you are?
Did I come across as witless to you?
As humans, we fail ourselves all the time. I am speaking to myself in this too. It's my fault for believing myself to be heroic while I just further waste my own time, energy and resources.
Moral of the entire story is that, it was my fault and I'm glad I had learnt the lesson when I did.
Dear, as I tried to tell you, you are more than doubled my age, your child is older than I am, yet you come to me with abominable cruelty?
You have spent roughly 20 years more on this planet yet you still tried to rob me off what I had been trying to compile?
Have you succeeded Dear or shall I call you mother? Since you are fit to be my mother?
As insignificant as my existence was to your life, how many others have you done this to?
Exactly, how damaged are you? Are you projecting the rotting that's inside? Your mask has become undone.
Dear, let me conclude by saying that I have found you out.
I am dangerous to your kind, not for any other reason but because I know your mind. I have caught wind of your antics. While you are proud of your slander and belittling, I am proud of my heart.
You see Dear, egos always do trip.
But, humble? They don't stumble to fall, they may stagger but they balance out really fast. Unlike you, I learn pretty well from my lessons - I even throw in some extra remedial and enrichment classes.
Oh and dear? I don't fight you with my words or my opinion of you.
I take that up with The Almighty and that's your karma.
That was my two cents, we always have lessons to learn. The good and the bad. If we lived perfect lives or we had no vice then we'd be worshipped as God.
I do strongly believe at the very essence of a major blessing, one is put through these tests in order to harshly learn who to filter out and who to foster.
-Memoirs of Maryannable's Mashables
Earlier this year I had met a woman, pleasant to the eye, middle-aged who at first, came across as "nice".
Who, may I add, (I know, I am always adding) came to me first, she asked for my number first. She was piqued after asking me, "what do you do?" You know the entitlement, "can I do it too?".
Well, aren't we all nice when we want something?
In summary, she became fairly acquainted with me as she wanted to sign up for a service I offer.
A master at playing the card of sympathy.
"I am divorced, I have a young daughter who has special needs, please help me."
Me, of course being the very naive, "wear my heart on the sleeve" and very dim kind of person, decided to go all out to help this woman.
"Please come over, I'll help you", Hell I'll even do your "mock interview" for you.
I do agree, I am as thick as two short planks - sometimes I do lack common sense.
You need the job to make money for yourself but I shall gallantly jump on my high horse and do it for you, so you can smile with me, come over for dinners, eye my partner, throw some charms.
The funny thing is Dear, a husband or a boyfriend is always replaceable, a person can always survive without a husband or a partner but you cannot selfishly whip a person's bread and butter out of their hands.
I was away, after becoming annoyed at being a lapdog, dealing with my own life.
You further played your hand at telling me "I don't see money in my account and I'm frustrated after spending my holiday bonus, could you please come now to my house and sort out my laptop or I'd like all my money back" and by all her money, she meant a measly R***. You spent your money and it's my problem?
Bearing in no mind that my data, time and my influence had been used to introduce you to my program etc.
Out of sheer spite that I did not dance to said tunes, she had become vindictive and contacted my company (you know the usual "call your manager type") saying I am unefficeint, I have not helped at all. Which was to her unfortunate insensibility as the matter was taken up and I was cleared based on facts.
Dear, if you are an educated "lawyer", "doctor" or "teacher", could you not have mustered the courage or garnered the skills to do your own interview? Shouldn't you have the brain capacity to read through your training and follow it yourself?
My biggest peeve is someone trying to cripple another's source of income, income that's not feeding me luxury but rather I use it for far more constructive things, you fed me stories about your shortcomings? But have you listened to mine? Do you know I have old parents? Are their needs always tendered to?
Did you think you could walk all over me because I am quite younger than you are?
Did I come across as witless to you?
As humans, we fail ourselves all the time. I am speaking to myself in this too. It's my fault for believing myself to be heroic while I just further waste my own time, energy and resources.
Moral of the entire story is that, it was my fault and I'm glad I had learnt the lesson when I did.
Dear, as I tried to tell you, you are more than doubled my age, your child is older than I am, yet you come to me with abominable cruelty?
You have spent roughly 20 years more on this planet yet you still tried to rob me off what I had been trying to compile?
Have you succeeded Dear or shall I call you mother? Since you are fit to be my mother?
As insignificant as my existence was to your life, how many others have you done this to?
Exactly, how damaged are you? Are you projecting the rotting that's inside? Your mask has become undone.
Dear, let me conclude by saying that I have found you out.
I am dangerous to your kind, not for any other reason but because I know your mind. I have caught wind of your antics. While you are proud of your slander and belittling, I am proud of my heart.
You see Dear, egos always do trip.
But, humble? They don't stumble to fall, they may stagger but they balance out really fast. Unlike you, I learn pretty well from my lessons - I even throw in some extra remedial and enrichment classes.
Oh and dear? I don't fight you with my words or my opinion of you.
I take that up with The Almighty and that's your karma.
That was my two cents, we always have lessons to learn. The good and the bad. If we lived perfect lives or we had no vice then we'd be worshipped as God.
I do strongly believe at the very essence of a major blessing, one is put through these tests in order to harshly learn who to filter out and who to foster.
-Memoirs of Maryannable's Mashables
