Don't Feel Guilty
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Many people like to help others by performing volunteer work. And lots of folks do that sort of thing for years and years.
However, after years of helping people as a volunteer, some decide that they've had enough of the job and elect to focus on other things going on in their lives. And some of these former volunteers start to feel guilty about no longer volunteering.
But if you feel guilty about ending volunteer work in which you've helped people, I say don't be. Instead, be glad that you tried and succeeded at helping people as a volunteer for as long as you did. Leaving that sort of work doesn't make you a bad person by any means!
That's how I see it.
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Mik: We give a fair amount of money...
I was just talking (ranting) about this again, after getting our mail.
If you give to anything or anywhere, it pisses me off that I get on some sort of list, or lists, or listss, and then get flooded with hardcopy junk in the daily mail, or the tons of unmeasurable spam. And, they think that their tricks get by me, with their personal correspondences as if I am a friend. How can a friend turn down another friend pleading for money?
Or, a friend of a friend. Or, a friend of a friends friend. How can I be so cold, when the personal letter or email addresses me in such a warm, likable manner. I'm an awful person. All they want is money, what's the big deal.
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@rainman said in Don't Feel Guilty:
Mik: We give a fair amount of money...
I was just talking (ranting) about this again, after getting our mail.
If you give to anything or anywhere, it pisses me off that I get on some sort of list, or lists, or listss, and then get flooded with hardcopy junk in the daily mail, or the tons of unmeasurable spam. And, they think that their tricks get by me, with their personal correspondences as if I am a friend. How can a friend turn down another friend pleading for money?
Or, a friend of a friend. Or, a friend of a friends friend. How can I be so cold, when the personal letter or email addresses me in such a warm, likable manner. I'm an awful person. All they want is money, what's the big deal.
Thanks, Friends!!File under no good deed goes unpunished.
Now it’s not even humans that decide to go after you. Algorithms which we don’t even understand take over and put you on the giving treadmill and your giving mentality is monetized by other algorithms that automatically sell your name to data brokers that algorithmically assign you to tranche that is sold for profit.
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@rainman said in Don't Feel Guilty:
Mik: We give a fair amount of money...
I was just talking (ranting) about this again, after getting our mail.
If you give to anything or anywhere, it pisses me off that I get on some sort of list, or lists, or listss, and then get flooded with hardcopy junk in the daily mail, or the tons of unmeasurable spam. And, they think that their tricks get by me, with their personal correspondences as if I am a friend. How can a friend turn down another friend pleading for money?
Or, a friend of a friend. Or, a friend of a friends friend. How can I be so cold, when the personal letter or email addresses me in such a warm, likable manner. I'm an awful person. All they want is money, what's the big deal.
Thanks, Friends!!Aqua would send them something unspeakable in the little envelope they so kindly provide for donations.
I'm not recommending, just saying.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@doctor-phibes said in Don't Feel Guilty:
@rainman said in Don't Feel Guilty:
Mik: We give a fair amount of money...
I was just talking (ranting) about this again, after getting our mail.
If you give to anything or anywhere, it pisses me off that I get on some sort of list, or lists, or listss, and then get flooded with hardcopy junk in the daily mail, or the tons of unmeasurable spam. And, they think that their tricks get by me, with their personal correspondences as if I am a friend. How can a friend turn down another friend pleading for money?
Or, a friend of a friend. Or, a friend of a friends friend. How can I be so cold, when the personal letter or email addresses me in such a warm, likable manner. I'm an awful person. All they want is money, what's the big deal.
Thanks, Friends!!Aqua would send them something unspeakable in the little envelope they so kindly provide for donations.
I'm not recommending, just saying.
Hah. Never thought of that.
And, it wouldn't need to be anything disgusting, necessarily. Just questionable, to get people to gather around and ask, "what IS that?"
