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Sacrifice. I am still on this Life's series and you can catch up with the other posts I've made on this Life's series, for you to fully understand each topic but still, each post is self-explanatory. You can read about the other part of the series below: Life Is About Balance. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/balance-9a045cd7 Life Is About Living, I. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/living-0afd66cc Life Is About Living, II. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/living-ii-868857cc Life Is About Mercy. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/mercy-9481f4e8 Life Is About Teaching. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/teaching-f7f26046 Life Is About Listening. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/listening-fb06077b Life Is About Helping. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/helping-d9226cd1 Life Is About Helping, II. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/helping-ii-18c0ea07 Fix That Attitude: Life Is About Helping, III. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/fix-that-attitude-5f0e2c3b Life Is About Caution. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/caution-ec4200d8 Life Is About Caution, II. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/caution-ii-c5514c38 Life Is About Fun. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/fun-8a35d967 Life Is About Love. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/love-780924dd Life Is About Sharing. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/sharing-9f010ae8
Image Source. https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-girl-feeding-her-dad-6139606/ Everything in life has to do with sacrifice. A lot of people want others to sacrifice for them but they won't even go out of their way to sacrifice for others. Giving is not truly giving until you have given to someone who might never be able to repay you. Most people conduct transactions and they call it "*giving*", "*sharing*" or "*sacrifice*." If it doesn't cost you anything then it's not really a sacrifice. Most people do good to others with the hope of getting something back and I wouldn't label that as a sacrifice. Sharing with others is a sacrifice and giving to others without expecting anything in return or a referral to the good once done to covet a favour from the same person is sacrifice too. Even in Economics, you must have heard of the term opportunity cost. In Economics, it means alternative forgone in other to satisfy one's want. Forgoing one thing to satisfy another need is a sacrifice. Giving and sharing with others means we are forgoing some part of what we have just to reach out and please another. This is in line with the "Life Is About Sharing." Parents sacrifice a part of them for their children; their resources, their ways of life, their body, their intellect and everything possible. A friend can also sacrifice his time just to be there for another friend and I can't stress this enough, sacrifice, giving, sharing or generally, helping is not limited to material things or money. https://read.cash/@Olasquare/sharing-9f010ae8 Those in the force sacrifice their whole being to protect their nation. They can't even be there for their children's first walk or graduation when the line of duty calls. The wife had to sacrifice her husband to the nation as she would be deprived of intimacy when she wants to. A sacrifice is indeed an act of service that's what most people need to understand. We don't have to confuse it with transactions. What mothers do cannot be overemphasized. Have you ever seen the transformation with mothers? Their perfectly shaped and trimmed body had to be sacrificed to bring forth another. That body can never remain the same again no matter how much gym work that mother puts in to get the body back. That's a huge level of sacrifice that can never be repaid no matter how much we try.
Image Source. https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-smiling-while-sharing-an-apple-7624955/ It's a huge level of sacrifice to let go of your child in the name of marriage. You have laboured, toiled and did all you could to make a woman out of your daughter but you have to let go; trust another man to do the job even better than you and any parent would understand that they would always have reservations as to if the man can do better than them because they want their child to be taken care of. That's another level of sacrifice. Sacrificing should be on our terms. Most people copy what others are doing because they want to be known and prove a point and they tag that as sacrificing. Sacrificing is by choice even when it defies logical sense. A woman sacrificed her body for her child in a burning building. She was warned against going into the fire and she felt the fire servicemen weren't acting as fast as she wanted. She went in there, grabbed her baby, sustained a serious amount of burns to her body just to make her child live. The child grew up and started feeling ashamed of her mother. She didn't want her around her even in school until she was told the story of how she risked her life for her. That was when she understood what sacrifice meant. Sacrifice goes deeper and we can't repay it no matter how much we tried. The young boy who helped Bill Gates with newspaper when he was broke knew what he did for Bill Gates was priceless and Bill Gates attested to that. Bill Gates searched for the boy when he made it and told the boy he wanted to repay him. The boy said he gave to Bill Gates when he had nothing and now he wants to give to him when he has everything? He said the level of sacrifice cannot be compared and that's true. Not everyone we sacrifice for would appreciate us or even remember it. It's not about how they would react when we sacrifice for them but it's about our own choice of taking the focus away from ourselves just to make others happy. What have you sacrificed for others? It's a rhetorical question we all need to ponder. Most of the things we think we are getting for free are not really free. Some people parted away with their resources just to make us happy. Life is about sacrifices. *Thank you for your time.* Kindly follow me on **Noise.Cash**... I am trying to engage more with people and connect with everyone with this account. I look forward to seeing you there... You can say hello to me there so we can get familiarized as well. Click here. https://noise.cash/u/Olasquare
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I honestly haven't read the article, but the title alone reminds me of the things we do for our loved ones even at our own cost. Sacrifice is everything. Where there's love there's sacrifice and vice versa. We have to sacrifice some things for better things.
Thanks for your honesty and yes, we have to understand that sacrifice is everything and it's a daily affair.
Well said!!to become great in life we need to sacrifice things that are important and move on to greater heights,I hail mother's they really tried alot and sacrifice themselves to give birth, sacrifice is a free will to everyone,we might not receive the reward immediately but one day luck would find our way.
That's so true, Victor. I totally agree.
Sacrificing and giving to those whom we may never meet or see again, to those who won't repay or don't even have the capacity to do so is more rewarding than giving to those who will give back to you. Although that doesn't mean we can't sacrifice for our lived ones, friends and those in our circle, that also is important. God sacrificed his son so we could have eternal life, our mothers just like you said sacrificed their bodies to house and birth us, our parents sacrifice a lot for us, some of which we may never know. I think its a cycle of life, sacrifices, giving and sharing but of course just like you said it is more rewarding when it comes from the genuine heartfelt desire to do so not by force, compulsion or coercion but from a place of a honest and pure want to give regardless of whether it would be reciprocated or not. I do need to intentionally create a healthy space and desire in my heart to give more genuinely to others.
Sacrifice is a cycle of life...I love how you coined that, my friend. Spot on
Much as it is noble to make sacrifices for other people, it is pertinent to make sacrifices for our own personal growth too.
I love this!!!
I don't know why I am always thinking about our men in the northeast who are are risking and sacrificing their lives just for me to be able to sleep safely. Heaven knows that my heart is always filled with gratitude and I always remember them in my prayers
It's a huge sacrifice, to leave everything behind for the sake of others. It's amazing.
I hope you will always be happy
And you too. Thanks.
Just as you have said, sacrifices must be done based on what and how we want it to be. It should be a personal thing and not based by other peoples view.
Absolutely, my brother. It's by choice and should be.
One thing most people don't realize we are sacrificing everyday is our time, we never get back the time we have lost that is why it's important we treasure every second and make sure to spend it well.
This is smart and so true. That's the biggest one; our time because a lot depends on it.
Sacrifice is like a choice to me, either a choice of happiness or sadness, so the only thing we have here is to know what are consequences of our sacrifice, everyday we have to sacrifice for someone for something, we just need to be with the thing we don't want to lose, but to treasure that I got this thing with my own sacrifices
We need to understand the consequences of our sacrifices. I love that.
Everyday we have our own sacrifices to make, but its up to us on how we offer it, its either a sacrifice by a choice or a sacrifice by any means
This is lovely... Thank you.
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You are talking about something which I had done too much.
It's an amazing feeling I am sure.
Sacrifice is sometimes an advanced responsibility we perform in our everyday grinding of life.
It's a daily affair...I agree.
I like the way you think friend. life is a struggle and sacrifice but often sacrifices to achieve something and when you get the results, everything is only used for personal gain how about the people around who have supported you in prayer. when we give help to others then we will get a reward from God.
Absolutely and thank you for that.
Sharing has sacrifice element but it gives us Happiness , satisfaction and pleasure. It gives us inner proud and humbleness. All of above each sacrifice , morale & financial , which we do in seek of God , has huge rewards from Almighty which can be in any shape.
No doubt, sacrifice gives us happiness and it's always amazing to do it also for God.
Sacrifice has a different images friend. I sacrifice myself too even I know I felt sadness I choose to because of the people I love. Even it's really hard I continued and choose it because I know this is the better. Sometimes we sacrifice also ourselves for the things we want even we didn't sure what will happen or the result. Sacrifices it's either to happiness nor sadness.
This is another angle to it and I enjoyed this, my friend.
Thank you so much my friend for your beautiful words always.🥰❤️
Thank you too 🤗🤗😍
Sacrifice is the hardest action in the world, especially we will not give it to the person isn't valuable to us.
Yes, it has to be to someone we value from a heart of love too.
Sacrifice is to forgive someone when you have a power to revenge. Sacrifice is leave something for someone else that is very important to you... Sacrifice is most beautiful and most hardest action of this world
Absolutely... I love how you said to forgive is also a sacrifice.
Sacrifice is all about love. This life is all about compromise, if we cannot compromise some things for better things, we do not move forward.
I love that word, "Compromise".
When something painful hasn´t gone out of your way for others, it is not sacrifice. You need to watch that korean movie to get the full gist about sacrifice you are talking about here. 🤣 You must watch that movie oo
I no watch o 😂😂😂🤣
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Sacrifices is part of living, to move forward to gain something we neednto sacrifice, to take risks. Like what God did to us hebsacrifices fo us, for our sin, and he still forgive us. Like what our parents did to us, they sacrifice everything fo us to live properly in this world.
Sacrifice is part of life, very true.