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How Ungrateful People Affect Us

Why you should be careful by being friendly and offering without any requirement.

By Wendy GeersPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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How Ungrateful People Affect Us
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By getting older and more insightful. You realize that people become ungrateful and lazy. When they’re offered something without the need to make an effort to earn it. So, unknowingly, we turn them into parasites.

People who are thinking about the one thing you haven’t done for them instead of being thankful for the thousand things you have done. Those are the ungrateful individuals I’m talking about.

Unappreciative people are always negative. They cannot appreciate the beauty in patience and hard work. So they keep worrying even if you have given your best.

Who are saints nowadays?

No one gets joy from giving to an unappreciative person when you show gratitude, the object of your attention blooms and flourishes.

A grateful person is always contented. They don’t demand more. Instead, they appreciate everything you give/do to them.

An unthankful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment. It’s like cancer. A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart because they always forget what they are not grateful for.

Ingratitude is a kind of weakness.

It consumes away your soul, overwhelming your heart and eyes to the beauty and blessings around us daily.

“So never let ungrateful remarks prevent you from doing what you feel is right and good.”

Spoiled people live rotten lives. Occasionally our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

It’s normal to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life dine us. Still, it is ungodly for us to be unappreciative of these circumstances that make us sick.

Sometimes it’s better to move on than hold on to someone who doesn’t understand you. Sometimes your absence will teach what your presence cannot.

The harsh reality.

It’s unfortunate how somebody can forget about you until they want something from you. People never remember the million times you have helped them, only the one time you did not.

When you’re always there for people, they stop appreciating you because your favors become an expectation. They won’t recognize you for your efforts because they expect that it’s just normal for you to help.

If they don’t respect you, they don’t deserve you. People don’t value the things you do for them unless you stop doing them.

The moment you recognize the pattern.

Sometimes being nice isn’t always the best thing. When you realize that you’re constantly treating a person better than they treat you, it’s time to change.

“You can be the most beautiful person and try your best to please everyone. However, in the end, all your efforts will still go unappreciated!”

Being unappreciated for hard work sucks! Especially when you put a lot of time and effort into them to overlook it. The most pathetic people are those who only care about themselves.

Life is full of ironies. The people who harm you, hate you, dislike you, and look for faults in you are now those who may need you later on.

Don’t give everything to a person that isn’t giving you anything. That’s life. Try not to become bitter because of it.

Final words

Sometimes we need to eliminate toxic people in our lives. It is difficult to do for me, but I genuinely feel that ‘my’ truth is not ‘the’ truth.

Occasionally, even our family does not know how to appreciate the good things we have done for them.

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At a certain point, we all get to the point where there is a healthy balance between giving and getting.

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Thank you for reading until the end🧡.

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Wendy Geers

Nice to meet fellow writers and readers!

I mostly write from broken places and reach into the darkness of life’s roads.

I try to encourage, inspire, and raise awareness with my stories.

Topics: Mental health, psychology & many aspects of life.

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