So send me all your money and I will suffer for you. CASH ONLY PLEASE!
I have begun to realize that those who hold their money tightly to them, with a clenched fist as it were, are also not giving anyone else the opportunity of putting anything into their hands. You cannot receive anything into a clenched fist. My father taught me well with respect to budgeting and I remember the lesson well: that you should not spend what you do not have. This I still stand firmly by. However, does it hurt to use some of what you do have to help others? I have noticed that there really is a greater circle out there, and when I was pregnant, many people helped me out with things for my baby, which I then did for others when they were pregnant. This issue was more like the principle outlined in the book or movie "Pay it Forward" – where you do not pay back the person who helped you, but rather help others in need. I have begun to see that those who are always available to help others are the ones who do not need to ask twice when they are in trouble. But I have also noticed that there are some people who expect others to run around them, but do very little from their side. Eventually it becomes a chore to help these people, and they might find that others start avoiding them.
