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By the grace of Allah Almighty, I am well, I hope all my friends will be well. There is my 2nd post in #weekendexperiences community. Today my post is about #weekend-engagement topics: Week 246, I will write on the topic Are you greedy and selfish??, which is given by respected #galenkp.
The owner of qualities like sincerity, compassion, generosity is a great person. Such sincere and good people are not rewarded by the bastards, mean and greedy people living in our society. Seeing these good people, in exchange for sincerity and generosity, get cheated, broken promises and fraud, these good people also change their attitudes. This change in attitudes is outwardly seen as negative, but in reality it is a positive change. I was also a sincere and generous person. I did not like selfishness and greed at all, but for some time now, the lessons of time have made me a bit greedy and selfish. I have learned this lesson from the selfishness, meanness and deceit of my close friends and relatives. Until some time ago, so many close friends and relatives used me for their own purposes. I used to bear my financial loss for their benefit, wasted my time, left my work and got busy in their work. After losing my money, going through economic hardships, and encountering a few difficulties, today I became wiser and you can also say that consciousness was awakened and I also became a little selfish and greedy.
In the past, I used to get ready early in the morning, sometimes for a friend's wedding, sometimes for a relative's treatment, and stay late at night chatting with friends at hotels. Never paying attention to himself, I were always confused in people's problems. Instead of wasting my precious time to beautify my future, I wasted my time in people's affairs. When difficult times came to me, I faced these difficult situations myself. Then I realized that I was wrong. I should also think about myself. I must take steps to strengthen myself. Now whatever I do, first I think about my benefit and then I think about the benefit of my friends and relatives. Because if there is no benefit to you in any work, it is a waste of your time. Time is a great wealth, instead of wasting it in useless activities, it should be used for your benefit. That is why we should be selfish. This kind of selfishness is useful for us.
Many of my close friends used to borrow money from me when they were in trouble. They used to promise to repay the loan soon, but whenever I asked them for a loan, they used to hesitate. Some of my friends took a loan from me and also ended the relationship. So now I have finished lending. Once you say No, brings a hundred time peace in your life. Under this formula, whoever comes to ask for a loan from me, I flatly refuse to give a loan. Temporarily, the same person gets angry with me, but after a few days, his anger disappears. Before that, I used to give loans and those whom I used to lend to used to humiliate me while returning the loan. Due to which my relationship with them was damaged. Now, from the day I started refusing to lend money to my friends and relatives, I have become mean and selfish, but the problems of loan have ended in my life and my relations with my friends and relatives are better than before.
In the recent past, I suddenly became ill during the summer. I hired a taxi and went to the hospital for check-up. Even after checking up there, my treatment continued for few weeks.I had very little money for treatment, I could not afford taxi fare. I used to travel by local public transport for check up. My house didn't even have an AC where I could relax in the coolness of the AC in summer. When I asked some of my friends and relatives to borrow money, they refused on the pretext of not having money. Their true nature also came before me and another fact also came out that no one comes near you in difficult times. During this time, I thought that I should save money, I should have a bank balance, I should also have a house, a bungalow, a car. That's why I started practical work. Where your 10 rupees are going, you should spending 05 rupees, because each rupee becomes millions, and these millions become crores, which come in handy in times of need. Before this, I had this idea that eat, drink, indulge, under this idea I spent a lot of waste and did not save money. Now I have changed, now I invest money wisely. At first, I used to spend the income earned from my business liberally, sometimes frivolously, but now I invest every rupee thoughtfully and write down every day's expenses in a diary while I sleep at night. This routine, besides securing my income in my heart, has instilled in me a stinginess in my nature and a greed for a little wealth because if I have wealth I will be able to use it in times of trouble. If the greed of money is not in the heart, then a person cannot save money.
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Source The Post is written in urdu and translated into English using google translator.