Tuesday, March 24, 2015

No Good Deed BY: KB © 3.24.15

I'm just sitting here deep in thought before I put my next motivational blog in the "saved" file. I have the television watching me as I type and do my laundry, which has been ready to go for over a week but I've been too busy to do....long story short, something made me take pause.
First a Donnell Jones song lyric just sort of ticker taped across my mind....

"But when you love someone ....You just don't treat them bad"

Too many of us are walking wounded with the deepest cuts coming at the hands of "loved ones"....which brings me to the title of this post. I ask that you bear with me as I mentally muse and bounce around in font...I promise it will all come together and make sense.

 I dug up this quote because my mother would often say it like a mantra. The full quote is "No good deed goes unpunished." I never figured out just what the heck she was talking about until now as I sit feeling some sort of crazy way and  I was mentally and emotionally prompted to look up the exact meaning of the quote.

The quote breaks down as follows: Beneficial actions often go unappreciated or are met with outright hostility. If they are appreciated, they often lead to additional requests.

Now back to my point...we get wounded because we approach situations with  expectations hanging on them. Oftentimes deep in our hearts and psyche we know that the other party is incapable of or has no intentions on meeting the expectation yet we go all in with reckless abandon..

Check or express your expectations and be open and real about what you're willing to give as well as receive ...


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