Excellent insight.
#14. “I’d rather be taken advantage of once in awhile than have a closed heart.”
Random thoughts…
~When you give to another and they deceive you, it can hurt beyond words. The only thing worse is the nothingness you feel when you don’t give at all.
~I honestly believe that to truly give, it has to leave you without something, at least for awhile. Something may be returned to you or it may not. It shouldn’t matter, if you gave for the right reasons.
~I was never a risk taker in my younger years. No way. I used my shyness as a wall. It protected me from disappointment, failure and rejection. Unfortunately, it also isolated me from life. It prevented me from finding out what COULD happen and what I could MAKE happen. I eventually chipped away at the wall, taking the last of it out with some good swift kicks…
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Thank you so much for the re-blog. I am always surprised at how others react to my writing. Thanks for appreciating it. 🙂
You’re great, that’s why!
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