Edited by Casper Smith, Saturday, 2 Jan 2021, 18:37
I have never been the one to hand out pearls of wisdom, anecdotes, clichés or sayings that have been passed down through time, just for the sake of saying them. Until i have pulled them apart and questioned them, only then will i choose to say it, or question it, much as I am doing now. I have just heard somebody say 'Christmas is about giving not receiving'.
As I am not stupid, i get why people say it. Now, knowing myself and the way I analyse and deconstruct things that people say and giving it some thought ever since I heard them say it. I am sure that 1, you can not give with out some receiving and it is that, what makes me come to my solution. 2, I believe that the main reason we give is over looked and can be questioned.
Based on the feeling we get when some receives from our generosity, of course we feel that it is nice to be nice, although i am sure that what drives us to give is the feeling that we get, not from giving but the feeling we get from those who receiving. When we see the face of some one we have giving to or we know the impact of our giving's, to say like, charities, the homeless person on the street or the person who sells the Big Issue, their is a sense of fulfilment that we we get because we feel that we are doing the right thing, we are helping and we are generally being nice.
I am suggesting that it is that feeling that is the driving force of our giving, and to a certain extent there could be, what explained as a sense of selfishness, as the natural instinct on giving could be to please ourselves before we please the person we are giving too. Based on the way I think and how I feel after those thoughts I would be so bold as to go against that saying and suggest that giving is all about receiving. Just a thought.
Day 92 of OU studies. Giving and receiving
I have never been the one to hand out pearls of wisdom, anecdotes, clichés or sayings that have been passed down through time, just for the sake of saying them. Until i have pulled them apart and questioned them, only then will i choose to say it, or question it, much as I am doing now. I have just heard somebody say 'Christmas is about giving not receiving'.
As I am not stupid, i get why people say it. Now, knowing myself and the way I analyse and deconstruct things that people say and giving it some thought ever since I heard them say it. I am sure that 1, you can not give with out some receiving and it is that, what makes me come to my solution. 2, I believe that the main reason we give is over looked and can be questioned.
Based on the feeling we get when some receives from our generosity, of course we feel that it is nice to be nice, although i am sure that what drives us to give is the feeling that we get, not from giving but the feeling we get from those who receiving. When we see the face of some one we have giving to or we know the impact of our giving's, to say like, charities, the homeless person on the street or the person who sells the Big Issue, their is a sense of fulfilment that we we get because we feel that we are doing the right thing, we are helping and we are generally being nice.
I am suggesting that it is that feeling that is the driving force of our giving, and to a certain extent there could be, what explained as a sense of selfishness, as the natural instinct on giving could be to please ourselves before we please the person we are giving too. Based on the way I think and how I feel after those thoughts I would be so bold as to go against that saying and suggest that giving is all about receiving. Just a thought.
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