Classic Story for not so classic folks!
PREMISE: WHEN WE DO GOOD, GOOD HAPPENS TO US!
He worked overtime, but not for the overtime. He worked because his best friend, with terminal cancer couldn’t. His friend had tried his best, but his best was becoming more and more his worst. His friend wanted to maintain his life, just by working a few hours every day, he felt he could have some normalcy. His friend was wrong. He was becoming weaker, more sick day by day and now to keep up the pace, overtime had to be applied.
Hey, what are friends, true friends, truly for, if not to help out a sick friend?
So he did just that. He signed up for the overtime and ended up working even longer than what was expected. He actually had the satisfaction of not only getting the job done, but of helping out a friend…for doing something for someone who absolutely couldn’t do for himself, and worse, had no way of re-paying him except with, “THANK YOU!”
IT was Priceless!
PREMISE: WHEN WE DO GOOD, GOOD HAPPENS TO US!
On his way home from an even longer than expected overtime day, he was at a stop light. There was a landscaper who was finishing up cutting grass on an overgrown lot. The landscaper ran over a bed of rocks and, well, you LITERALLY get the Picture (Above)!
By the time he went up a block to turn around and confront the landscaper, he had quickly packed up his mower and was gone.
THE DENTS WEREN’T!
Do you know one of the greatest flaws we have? The absolute one thing that will either keep you up at night or, worse, just flat out keep you from ever going to sleep in the first place? The biggest thing that separates us from the animal world besides a thumb?
WE ARE MEANING-SEEKERS!
It ALL has to have Meaning. It has to make sense. There has to an absolute Reason. Purpose for Purpose, right?
Hmmmmmmmmm. . . .
PREMISE: WHEN WE DO GOOD, GOOD HAPPENS TO US!
Fact: Bad things actually do happen to good people. When you unconditionally lovingly Give, some times you receive N O T H I N G in return.
WE ARE MEANING SEEKERS. . .who sometimes find no meaning, get no answers or proper responses to:
WHY? How Come? What For?
Shhhhhhhh. . .Listen, Meaning Seeker. Don’t answer this next question fast. Let it sift in to your inner recesses. Let your Soul answer and not your Meaning Seeking Mind.
Ready?
Does IT Matter? Honestly?
If it does, it’s purely GIVING FOR GETTING! It’s a gift with not only a big string attached, but a costly expectation: WHEN WE DO GOOD, GOOD HAPPENS TO US!
TILT! You Lose!
Would we give, EVER, if that was Never true?
Psssssst: DO NOT do Good to get Good–Do Good because IT is GOOD.
Infect the World with this DIS-EASE of Goodness, with no thought, expectation, of ANY Return. Start this epidemic that no vaccine can contain, no antibody can cure or alleviate.
And then. . .then try ducking. . .
The Rocks from Above.
P.S. The Do-Good Friend did receive something for helping out his terminally ill friend:
A Lesson! You?
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