Everything can't be traded with money
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
Sacrificing our own desires, needs, and interest for helping others is called self-denial. In a word, it's another meaning of selflessness or sacrifice. It can be defined in various ways but I tried to explain it in a simple way.
picture of Pixabay from Pexels
Self-denial is one of the great virtue of human character and I believe little or more we have this kind of motive in our mind. Self-denial is a part of humanity and that means as well as humanity exists on this earth, self-denial can't disappear.
I don't think sacrificing something for our better future or for the good of our family should not be included because it's not fully selflessness. So I am sharing one incident of self-denial.
It was the incident just before the time of covid-19 pandemic situation. One of my friends asked me if I am available to do tuition. I had available time and I replied yes. I start to teach the student after receiving the offer and the monthly salary was good with was about $50 per month. Two months were remaining before the exam and so I agreed to finish it as a course and give $100 in the end.
When I started to teach him, I acknowledge that his father died in his childhood times and I felt sad about it. No one in his family earns to live. They get financial support from his mother's brother from childhood. He was the only hope of his family as well as his mother. He was one of the polite students of mine.
I finished my course and his mother promised to give me the money within some days. And pandemic situation arrived at that time. Everywhere people started to die because of covid-19 and the world became like hell. I know you also experienced it.
Almost everyone was facing a financial crisis and I was not different also. That time my student's mother called me and asked for my online wallet number to pay my salary online. Then I started to think their financial condition was worse compare to mine and in the crisis time how they are surviving. I knew they were also suffering for it but giving me money which I actually deserve. I could feel it. I could not be so cruel as to accept the salary.
I know it cost me a $100 loss and it was the money which I deserve it and I need the money at that time but I understood that they need the money more than me. So I said them to keep the money for their own. The student's mother was so happy that she started to cry and gave me blessings.
Yes, I suffered a loss financially, and all the effort of the 2 months but it gave me satisfaction. It gave me blessings. Everything in life can't be traded with money. Sometimes we need to do some tasks for the sake of humanity. Compared to satisfaction and blessing, $100 is almost nothing.
If you think that I violated any rules of this platform or my word hurting you or I made any mistakes here , let me inform about it through comments or my other social network . I will try to correct it if I made any mistakes.
Find me in social media : Telegram Twitter
Yeah you are absolutely right, self-denial is part of life that every human must live with because in one way or the other we all have denied ourselves.
https://leofinance.io/threads/intishar/re-intishar-37ujapmkf
https://leofinance.io/threads/beauty197/re-beauty197-g2b1s8ri
The rewards earned on this comment will go directly to the people ( intishar, beauty197 ) sharing the post on LeoThreads,LikeTu,dBuzz.
We need to understand when others needs our help and help them if we can. Thanks for sharing @intishar. Greetings.
Yes, We need to understand it. In this cruel world, we need to keep humanity alive otherwise the world will be turned into chaos.
Thanks for reading.
Yay! 🤗
Your content has been boosted with Ecency Points, by @intishar.
Use Ecency daily to boost your growth on platform!
Support Ecency
Vote for new Proposal
Delegate HP and earn more
Thank you..
Yeah, it takes strong courage to take the action you took, yes it might have felt like a loss but the feeling of helping someone in dire need can never be replaced by anything.
I don't consider it as my loss. Sometimes that kind of loss is also necessary. I have done it for the sake of humanity and I believe that I have done the right thing and I feel proud of it.
!PIZZA
It is a beautiful story for sure! In your case You knew somehow that maybe you were going to have problems being paid, but you did it anyways. What happened after just concluded your thoughts, but the good thing is that you had in your mind that it had a big chance that you weren't going to see the colour of the money right? So you already accepted that in a certain way when you went through that experience. But interesting example, and I had some examples like that, I guess the important is being happy with your mind that you are doing something good!
!PIZZA
!LUV
@intishar, @gwajnberg(1/1) sent LUV. | connect | community | HiveWiki | NFT | <>< daily
! help(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoI didn't accept that money and I said to keep the money for them and don't need to give it to me. I think I have done the right thing and I never regretted for it. It always gave me positive and good feeling. I wish, I could share the emotion. It's one of the good feeling I experienced in my life. Money will come to us in different ways but that kind of satisfaction we can't get all the time 🙂.
Thank you for reading with patience.
!PIZZA
$PIZZA slices delivered:
intishar tipped ugomarcel
intishar tipped ifarmgirl
@intishar(1/5) tipped @princessbusayo
gwajnberg tipped intishar
intishar tipped gwajnberg
Wow...
Indeed... Not everything can be traded with money. Rest assured that that family would never forget you for what you did for them. Denying yourself so someone else can benefit is not something that one can do easily.
To be honest they were ready to give it even in the crisis time. I must say they belong to that kind of people who keep their promises. I think god helped them through me. I was just a media. I never considered it as a loss. I feel good for making the decision. My student's mother gave me blessing from the heart. I felt it. I became emotional also that day.
Maybe it's a loss, but the satisfaction you got out of doing it means a lot and that is what really matters
Yes, the satisfaction I got and the blessings I received more valuable than those money in my opinion. I feel good for what I have done.
!PIZZA
Hi @intishar, your post has been upvoted by @bdcommunity courtesy of @rem-steem!
Support us by voting as a Hive Witness and/or by delegating HIVE POWER.
JOIN US ON
Thank you for appreciating my efforts.
That's so amazing of you, Inti. Such a great deed will never be forgotten. You touched their lives for sure!
!LUV
@intishar, @ifarmgirl(2/5) sent LUV. | connect | community | HiveWiki | NFT | <>< daily
! help(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoI just tried to help them. I never regretted for the decision what I made that time. It gives me good feeling all the time.
!PIZZA
That was a great sacrifice you did. Maybe if I was the one, I might as well collect the money becomes every is facing hardship at the moment.
Thanks for sharing.
Can't say it's a great sacrifice or not but it gave me satisfaction and gave me happiness to be able to help them.
It depends on many things. Who knows you would do the same thing also if you encountered the situation?
You may be right. But you really did your best for them .
Wow... that was a big sacrifice, my friend. You did a huge task for that family which made you sacrifice your needs. The truth is, we think we are going through a big problem but when we listen to others, we will appreciate the little we have. God will always bless you for what you did to that woman and her child who was your student. A great satisfaction for you.
It is true that, Not everything can be traded with money
I have done that things which I felt right at that time. Compared to the blessing and satisfaction I feel that money was not worthy. I believe that I will be able to earn the same money in different ways. I think we need to do such kind of thing when it's possible.
!PIZZA