I am not Giving you Anything 2
25th Nov 2008
Hello lovely people
Why would a postman do something so outrageous? Because he feared that his worthless sons would discover the hidden mail in the attic, steam off the stamps and use the proceeds to go to the Greek island of Mykonos. These young men seemed to be quite attracted to Mykonos and would do anything to get there. I wonder how many used stamps with the number 87236 they would have had to sell to get the money to go to Mykonos.
We think the old man was crazy, but don’t we do the same in different ways? Think of the crockery and cutlery and bed linen that are hidden away and only taken out to impress visitors. As if we are not good enough to use beautiful or valuable stuff every day.
And how about the clothes that we only wear on special occasions? Often the special occasions are so far apart that the clothes “shrink” while in the wardrobe and then we need to buy new clothes, only to wear them once and hide them away again anyway. What a waste.
In the culture that I grew up in, there was the justification that you use beautiful things rather than leave them for the second wife to enjoy. Somehow there must be some external reason for attaching value to yourself, even if it is by comparing yourself to an unknown person that may or may not be in the future of your beloved partner.
We do the same with our emotions. Our love is precious, and therefore we are reluctant to tell people we love them until we know the end of our time here is near or there is some crisis that justifies us using the words. We do not understand that love breeds love, and we prefer to hide it away in the attic so that others cannot abuse it.
How often do we praise our children or others around us that do well or achieve something? No, we rather withhold the praise because we do not want them to become vain or conceited. Why would we encourage people to break down the boundaries around them and explore their full ability? If we do anything like that, we will just have to dig up more of the praise and encouragement that we have been hoarding, and that will leave us with nothing. Will it?
Positive emotions like love and praise and encouragement may multiply slower than the more heated emotions of jealousy and resentment, but positive emotions multiply for ever, while negative emotions only multiply until we see the damage they do and wake up and choose not to feel them.
So it is quite OK and in fact a very good idea to take all the best things out of the wardrobes and cupboards and our hearts and use them every day to make our world a beautiful place. The more we use the best things, the more wonderful things will come into our lives, because we are worthy of the best.
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Elsabe
