Option 1: What does giving look like when it’s effortless?
Giving is a lifestyle, giving is meant to be a lifestyle because it is an act of sowing into the lives of someone or people who are in need, people whose only option of survival is you helping them or coming to their aid.
Giving is basically to understand that pouring into others, sowing into others is being human and that it should be done with joy and understanding because that is the beauty of giving. It is no longer giving if it is done out of a grumbling mind and when one is being compelled to do so.
Giving isn't genuine and joyful, doesn't define what it is meant to be if it is mostly done out of abundance and when one feels like doing it. Most people because a person once didn't do their bidding, once the person is in need and comes to them for aid, they refuse, not because they do not have but because they are trying to take revenge for the person not being on their side.
So, let's see effortless giving like this, you were asked to stop giving, or threatened to stop giving, and because you were threatened, you tried to stay away but every day before sleeping, you always feel empty and wondered when you would have the opportunity to go back to giving, inorder words, you miss giving, now the thing is it is probably effortless for you, giving is effortless for you.
If you understand the above, you would be able to understand what effortless giving is about. It is your life, something you do without even thinking twice, it is something you could do even with your eyes closed, and even in your dreams.
Giving effortless looks like giving without needing applause, is sowing into someone else's life not because you are compelled but because you deeply feel or are pushed to, it is giving because you want the other person to be able not just because you want to feel like a philanthropist or feel like you are a demi-god to anyone, and without you, others won't be able to survive.
Such giving is invisible and has no record of the many times they have come through for you when needed, it is driven by genuineness to see someone happy, it is driven by love and empathy towards the other person and humanity at large. It is not that they have in abundance, it is that they enjoy doing it and would do it without waiting for someone to beg them to do it.
This particular giving has no strings attached, the giving is done not for a later future favour or expectations of repayment, when you would one day be in need, or because you want them to sing your praises to everyone they come across, it doesn't mean that the collected should not be grateful or appreciative but when you knowingly do it because of those things, it is no longer it. It is simply finding joy in the act of blessing someone else or extending a hand to another person.
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