Giving, Helping or Interfering?
Giving, Helping, Interfering? What could be more giving than volunteering for a group that you admire? Sometimes it feels good to give, and sometimes we prove the adage, "No good deed goes unpunished." Certainly, my problem is wanting to be accepted and liked in groups. I think that comes from feeling unaccepted as a child. At least, that's what my armchair psychology degree tells me. Is it true that we are punished for giving? Perhaps that's how we perceive it. What I think is actually happening is that we each have a certain belief system. Those beliefs may have been formed by our culture, where we were raised, or simply by what we learned within our families. It's not that complicated. We all have ideas about what is right, what is helpful, and how people should treat one another. The problem is that those ideas aren't necessarily the same. Does that make one person wrong and another right? I don't think ...