Sharing

... or the power of sharing. I arrived to a conclusion. I must admit it took me a great deal to get to this conclusion but finally I have and now I will share it with you. So, here it goes: for a very long period of time I thought that people around us should repay us with the same coin we are paying them (talking about the positive side of things this time). WRONG! People around us DO NOT OWE us anything. If we chose to do something (and by something I mean anything coming from our own initiative, such as help, smile, support, advice so on so forth) we shouldn't expect anything in return. Confession: I thought that if I am nice to people and if I offer to help or anything of this kind, people OUGHT TO do the same. Well, you can all imagine my surprise when that didn't happen. Even more ... sometimes people were really repaying me with bad deeds (if we can call them like that). After the "surprise"-shock came frustration, and then anger and then hating people. Just from the simple fact that I alone expected something that had no warranties! Finally I decided to cut people off ... because people are not worth keeping around if they do not treat me the way I was treating them. WRONG AGAIN! The tragic result of this action was me being completely alone. But then I remembered I had friends, people who really appreciate the quality of our relationship. People who told me how much they count on our bound and people who were happy about our honesty. Looking at those people made me reconsider my criteria of choosing people around me. And then I arrived to the present conclusion: the minute I was ready to share my thoughts, my support, my knowledge with those around me I discovered that all negativity disappears ... One small thing tho ... I cannot help myself feeling some regret. Regret that some of those people do not appreciate the honesty in our relationship and in that case ... well I might just apply the same ol' solution! Maybe you can work something out! But sometimes, just sometimes, people do not really change!