Don't worry about being taken advantage of; Able to be exploited means you're worthy.
This sentence might not look pleasant, but there are reasons behind this.
The so-called "A poor man in the crowded city has no visitor, while a rich man in the remote mountain area will be called on by distant relatives" probably has the same meaning.
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In nature, there is one kind of animal called the green shrimp; it lives its whole life in the flatfish's mouth.
Surprisingly, the flatfish never eat the green shrimp, because the green shrimp will be shaking its body to attract other small fish to become flatfish's food.
As a result, the green shrimp became a part of the flatfish life.
The flatfish always protects the green shrimp well, and the green shrimp stay in flatfish mouth overnight.
But when the green shrimp become old and no longer lures food for the flatfish, the flatfish will drive it away and replace it with another young, useful green shrimp.
In fact, we often say "take advantage" relationships, the green shrimp get the safety, and the flatfish get the food it wants. The benefit of each other is equal, but when the green shrimp is old and cannot provide value, the balance is broken, and it will be discarded.
Although it looks cruel, once there is no advantage to take, the green shrimp will be abandoned, but it is not so in our lives?
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The so-called relationship between bosses and employees is nothing more than a state of mutual utilization.
If not, you have no relationship with your boss, but why your boss keep you and waste their assets?
Not to mention relatives, nor is it not possible to keep them all the time.
So, why take advantage?
It's just a relationship we're willing to have because we need each other.
You may not want to admit it, but in reality, we often find that after entering society, most of our contacts are based on the interests of the exchange relationship.
In other words, with our mutual interests, only to build our social circle.
After all, in this world, a relationship without benefit is very few. At least for me, in this full of information world, relationship without benefit is hard to find.
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Let’s take old-age as an example, in the past, as the children grew up; they will take care of the aging parents; which is a common thing to do.
However, at that time I saw a picture in the news, what I saw was an old man abandoned by his children, and the children were unwilling to take care of him, the words full of hate towards the elderly, complaining the various issue about the elderly.
Although the fact is, we all know that the old people will have a smell, many times often has a disgusting smell.
But the old man, who looks worthless and require to spends a lot of resources, is also the one who raised you and worked for you day and night.
In fact, the world may full of cross benefits, but some relatives are no longer within their scope, some friends are the same, and some people are the same, but our lives other than relatives, we are difficult to meet other people.
There seems to be a different organization in society, but in fact, each of us lives in our own circle, or maybe our family circle, or business circle.
Especially when we often say "loneliness." In the university, you don’t want to stay in a falling environment in the dormitory; don’t want to sleep late, also don’t want to spend your time only on gaming, chose to leave this group, chose a life, that is, the so-called loneliness.
Since then, work hard on the lonely life, but we all know that it is only temporary, because outstanding people often only make friends with outstanding people. So as long as you leave a group, become more and more excellent, believe that soon you will go to people who are similar to you, but there may be very few.
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In fact, life is more of control on benefit and value, and those feelings, friendship, affection and other emotions, sometimes appear so fragile, after all, because of interests or value disputes; the example of becoming enemy with others are no longer a minority.
I don't like being taken advantage of, but I try to be a "valuable" person because when you have no value at all, you will have nothing.
Break the illusion of childhood, accept the benefits of the reality, and constantly improve your value, even if you end up refusing to help anyone, you still have the choice to help.
Don’t be afraid of being used, be afraid when you become useless!
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