You cannot claim to have a heart of goodness when you cannot even do good to the people of your own family and neighbourhood. You will be surprised that a lot of people only do good to the people they hope to get something in return - that is like a transactional acts of goodness, but they leave the people that are close to them that actually need the help. The truth is that the good you do to the outside should begin from inside. If you cannot do good to your own circle, then you are not even good in the first place. Your acts of kindness and goodness should begin from within.
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One of my friends once told me about how her husband would do all manner of good things to the people outside, and will even host a party at his workplace, buy drinks for friends outside, but it is when he comes home that he will draw the line. She told me that she cannot remember the last time the husband gifted her with anything, not even on her birthday, but he would buy expensive things for others just to for them to hail him outside. One thing he was forgetting was that all those people may not stand by him when he needs them. You cannot sacrifice family for the people that will not even have your back when you need it.
What a lot of people forget is that in an emergency situation, the people that will come to your rescue are the people close to you. That my friend also told me that when her husband slipped and fell in the bathroom and hit his arm on the tiles, it was still her, who he did not care much about, that still got some neighbours, who he did not do anything for, to take him to the hospital. He stayed for some weeks in the hospital and it was still the same wife that stayed with him. All the people he prioritized over his family and neighbours were nowhere to be found. Imagine if she had decided to treat him the way he treated her, he may not have made it through.
If you leave a neighbourhood and they do not feel your absence, then you did not make impact when you were around. In fact, it means that your presence was not necessary. You may not have everything in the world, but with the little you have, you can use it to create an impact in the world around you. The truth is that someone who cannot help you from the level they are, nor give you something from the little they have, may not be able to help or give you when they have much. Trust me, money does not create another personality for someone, it only amplifies their true personality. You will know someone that has a heart of goodness from what they do from their level.
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If someone is good to some others; like their bosses in the office, their superiors, but not good to their gardener, neighbours, family members, gateman, etc, then the person is not good at all. Goodness should not be selective, it should be to all. You need to develop a heart of goodness and make it your lifestyle. That is; live with the consciousness that doing good makes you a better human. You cannot go wrong with your acts of goodness as long as they are with the right intentions. More so, the good that you do to someone today, you may become a beneficiary of the same tomorrow.
By doing good, you have sown a good seed into your future that will benefit not just the recipient of the goodness but you as well. So any opportunity to do good to people, especially those within your circle, should be seen as a seed that you sow into the future. For the fact that you are blessed among your neighbourhood is for the reason that you have to raise others to stand too. Remember that you are blessed in order for you to extend the blessings to others. The goodness that you want from the world should definitely begin with your own acts of goodness.
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