As normally advantageous as being kind hearted is, it can sometimes make you vulnerable. Someone said: "having a good heart attracts beggars, liars, leeches, users, takers, the unappreciatives and the ungratefuls.." and for the most part, I agree.
Unfortunately, you wouldn't see the true colour of the ingrate until the hand of dependence shifts, and you start to need the person to be there for you, just as you used to be for him, or for the very same favours that you used to do him.
You wouldn't know how real ungratefulness is until the ingrate starts to do you things that will make you sit and wonder if he really was that same person whose entire subsistence and maintenance was once at the mercy of your intervention.
But if you ask me, be kind, no matter what, for if you think you cannot be more vulnerable, try inconsiderate and selfish. I swear down you will wake up in the middle of the night disturbed, wondering how everyone else is asleep and you are there thinking where to start to clean your conscience.
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