TAKING ADVANTAGE

Hi! beautiful people

What do i mean by “taking advantage”?

Taking advantage is like when one uses something or someone for his or her own gain.

Depending on how your taking advantage affect others, taking advantage can be a good and a bad thing.


Taking advantage in a good way:

• Taking advantage of an opportunity for the betterment of your life or say success. It’s okay to take advantage of an opportunity for you own gain if it presents itself, for instance an opportunity to study or being promoted at work or start a business or a new technology etc. BUT when you have to cheat or say con others to get something from them etc, then it’s not okay.

• Taking advantage of the time you have for something productive such as working hard, not to wait to do something last min if it can be done early, not to involve yourself in things that you have no control over etc. We all know time doesn’t wait, each second counts. Manage your time effectively.

Taking advantage in a bad way:

• Taking advantage takes a different turn when people start taking advantage of others. That is a terrible thing to do as you are hurting someone else emotionally or mentally. Hurting someone is not necessarily physical just so you know. There are so many ways people want to take advantage of others for their own gain. Most people see the opportunity to take advantage of others especially when others are either being simply nice or trying to help. 

For instance: Someone who takes advantage of someone’s love for him or her. (some people are just lucky to have people who adore and love them, someone who can do whatever they ask them to do. Why take advantage of him or her? Why use him or her? He or she is not your slave to keep, not your punching bag, not your ATM or bank whenever you need money for something) OR Jeopardizing someone else’s job for your own to thrive (some are willing to do anything even to make someone else lose his or her job for him or her to get it).

Appreciate when someone is good to you or does something good for you by you being good to them but do not use them for own personal gain. In relationships, learn how to compromise, appreciate, understand and love one another.

Take advantage of the opportunity and time but never take advantage of someone and trust given to you. Never mistake someone's kind heart for a weakness. Even when you know their weakness, does not give you the right to take advantage of him/her. 

To those whom have been and still being taken advantage of:

You got to learn how to set boundaries. Do not allow people to occupy too much space in your life. 

You got to move on and cut all ties with people taking advantage of you.

You have to learn to appreciate and love yourself. Know your worth.

Know that not everybody really likes you, they just like you because they know they benefit from you somehow. Make sure you know who is who. 

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Author: Rachel Stephen

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