Kindness for Weakness: The Leeches Will Feed if You Let Them

A huge part of expressing gratitude and appreciation for yourself is simply having self respect; setting boundaries that prevent others from exploiting your kind nature. There are huge differences between being available and of service to your friends, family and community and being taken advantage of.

Unfortunately, many people are only made aware of the differences when recovery is no longer feasible, having been sucked dry with little more than a thank you and a satiated hand, waving from the distance.

The world is full of parasites but they are not limited to the organisms found in rivers and jungles. Dictionary.com defines them as:

1. an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.

2. a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.

Being kind, caring and considerate can absolutely go too far, placing you in the situation where you are reduced from being a helpful, appreciated person to being an expected and easily exploited host for as long as you have resources to provide sustenance.

You must be your own advocate to fully realize the quality of life you want and deserve. Enabling the parasites of the world to feed from your resources, your positive energy, your time and generosity will leave you withered, frail and without.

This is NOT an exchange of gratitude, but an offense to the brilliance of who you are meant to be.

Parasites steal from you, yet get away with their crimes by saying "thank you" or even going so far as to leverage your emotions, yet many hosts are guilty of enabling, which leaves only a melee of accusation and finger pointing.

Be grateful for yourself by washing yourself clean of everything and everyone that takes without giving anything in return.

The balance of life will either help those parasites to evolve in a self sufficient, positive direction or will see them absorbed into an environment where parasites thrive.