If there's one life lesson I could pass on to everyone it would be that people don't change. For about 19 years I've been convinced that everyone deserves another chance, and I say another chance rather than a second chance because I have made the mistake of giving countless chances to people. For some reason, just yesterday it dawned on me that chances are pointless. I am too forgiving. I give people chances in hopes that they will change their harmful habits and smarten up. People only change into what they are supposed to change into, people shouldn't put in the effort to change their habits when eventually they will just slip back into them, not because they are unintelligent, more that it's just the way they are supposed to be.
Okay so back to the whole chances thing. I've learned that giving people another chance, and hoping that they will not take advantage of it is just like putting a gazelle in front of a lion and hoping for the lion not to eat it. It's just nature for the lion to eat the gazelle, just as its nature for a person to repeat the past. I know by writing this I cannot change my nature-- which is to keep giving chances, I'm just hoping that realising this will make me think twice. Honestly, I'm just sick of getting taken advantage of and walked all over. Thats just human nature for you.
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