Anything you engage in that requires you to alter your essence is not worth it. It is not sustainable to be in a relationship, a job, a country that requires you to sacrifice your wellbeing & peace. If it doesn't align with you, it is not for you. 'Adkeyso' mindset won't get it!
Cultures that advocate you sacrifice yourself/wellbeing to serve are misguided. Can't give from a broken and an empty place. If that mindset worked, #Somalia would be thriving, not sitting in bombs, floods, and poverty!! We are very giving as a culture, but from a broken place!!
Giving isn't the problem. It is the underlying assumptions and conditions from which we give and sacrifice that we need to revisit. There is giving and there is dhiigmiirato levels of sacrifice we encourage that only creates more problems, breeds takers and entitled folks! #Toxic
We came on earth individually for a reason, for each to figure out life. Yes, we are social and need support networks/systems - with balance and boundary. When there are more takers than givers, in unhealthy and imbalanced way, then we have a problem culture turned into 'dhaqan'!
Cultures that train their children to go against their nature and intuition pay a very high price later on, for they are preparing future adults with broken inner campus!! These become adults who are out of touch with what & who they really are, beyond social conditioning!! Scary
Disconnected & imbalanced societies do not produce solutions, especially when they have produced more takers than givers! Only way to return to balance is for the givers to create boundaries, very tight ones. They have to. Not because they don't care, as defined by dhiigmiirato!
Don't take my word for it. Just pay attention to any area in your life where you are giving too much of yourself. You will realise it is same area you find it takes too much from your own balance! It becomes heavy, like your energy in that area is too weak to support yourself!!
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