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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Thrillho:
I'm proud of you, Unicorn.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 21 Feb 2013, 08:34 ---What happened to not taking money from people,
--- End quote ---
Sometimes circumstances can overwhelm one. It was my therapist who said that the most important steps in helping myself were first to recognise that I needed help, and then to accept help when offered.
Barmymoo:
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything. I was deeply offended when you refused my offer of help last time, because you had been talking about asking others for help and I didn't see why my help was so much less acceptable. And then when you were asking again, I just felt that it was me personally you don't want to take help from. But like I said, I shouldn't have said anything because frankly me feeling a bit offended is pretty irrelevant in this situation.
de_la_Nae:
Heh...oh May, don't worry, it wasn't just you that Uni turned down, it's not a matter of relationship value.
When someone does a kindness or favor for me, I've gotten to the point where I can openly admit that I need to offer a return of some sort a few times (a couple dollars, a favor, whatever) before I can feel comfortable accepting that favor. Even if it's someone who's been my close friend for years. It allows me to both soothe my pride and quiet the irrational alarm bells that jangle in my head at 'being given a gift I don't deserve' (which is all of them, incidentally. Like I said, irrational).
I imagine something similar is going on here. I imagine we all have some meatspace friends and acquaintances who act like that too.
idontunderstand:
Unicorn, I don't have anything to donate right now but if I get that job I probably will. Not out of pity, more as a protest against the fact that money runs the world and decides your well-being in a way I think is completely disgusting. If there's someone who needs it more than I do, well why can't they just have it? Don't consider it an act of pity.
You could consider it as a unicorn preservation fund?.........!
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