Are you a giver or a taker?

There are two types of people in the world: givers and takers. In my last blog, I talked about the worth of being a Good Samaritan. Does it pay off to make someone’s day better by doing a little good deed of the day. It is almost seen as a must to perform these tasks, or is it? In this blog, I am going to address the issue of actually performing these tasks.

I read a blog which makes a lot of sense to me. It made me think of things that I wouldn’t have thought on my own. The link for this blog is http://htacio.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/are-you-a-giver-or-a-taker/. In this blog, the author addresses the want to be a Good Samaritan. The author puts out the question, “Do people really want to do these acts every day?” Hearing this question, I would automatically say yes, but after reading the article I realized the answer to that question is no.

The blog states how people don’t want to give the effort of doing these good deeds. Yet, they want to be the victim, and have good deeds done to them all the time. We are content being the recipient of all the good things from other people. We want the gifts, but we don’t want to give them back in return. Whatever happened to the saying, “Leave a penny, take a penny.”

So, I will leave you with this. Are you the person that will go out of their way to help another who is in need, whether its opening a door, or picking up a piece of trash from the ground? Or are you the person that sits back, rushes one car ahead cutting off another driver and taking good deeds from people but not giving back?