The forego-ance of things or how not to sell your soul to the devil

Here’s another one that I don’t know where I should even begin. “…and lead me not into temptation”

It took me I don’t know how long to acknowledge and integrate into my total well-being that not all things offered to me are meant for the good-er of me. I know it seems so obvious. But in essence it’s not. Not just the lure of belonging-ness. Being part of the whole or the larger. The everyone does it or has it mentality. No, the other much more subtle part to that is that the majority of the time, the things offered to you that are not for the good-er of you, actually comes from the people you care about.

I am not implying here that who you care about does not care anything about you. But it’s in the basic human nature that I comes first, and first comes I. As in people may consider you into the equation, as long as it either does not interfere with their well-being and their wants and/or as long as it benefits them. Benefits them essentially more than it would benefit you. So I have become much, much slower in responding and accepting any offers thrown my way.

I don’t want to go into the nitty-gritty of detailed examples here. It is greatly individualized to recognize what is actually good for you, and who has the same interest at heart here. Which would be you yourself of course. I would hope that if you prefer to surround yourself with people who truly have your best interest at heart, that you would reciprocate that favor. Anyways, those little things that do not contribute to the good-er of you could be anything from being manipulated to spend your time, energy and money on someone or something that does not feed your soul. It is just perpetrated to you in such a manner that it’s for the better of you until you see the flip-side of the mirror and realize it was just a farce, allowing the other party involved to gain some kind of advantage or stronghold over you.

The simplest example is anything that is offered to you for “free” while disguising any ill effects or debts to be paid that come along with the “free” offer. I know that is a very simplified example. But the intricate behavior of even simple human interaction is very complex. Where someone is always trying to sell something and someone is always buying into…whatever foolishness.