Tangled earbuds are the epitome of our lives when taken advantage by wicked people.
Do you ever feel used in life? Have you been deceived and felt idiotic for believing in a person? Do you wonder why your action of helping a person backfired?
Here is why I find tangled earbuds a good analogy of our lives and what you can learn from it.
Tangled earbuds are an effigy of how people can make our lives messy.
Ok just close your eyes right now. Imagine you’re a piece of earbuds. You start off clean and white. Packed nicely in a box. You enter into the real world, fresh and full of capabilities. You don’t know where you’ll end up but you are excited. It’s your first day and you begin your duty, you start straight and organized. But after you are utilized and contributed, people who were heartless and selfish leave you tangled. And after a few months, you get smeared and you’re not the clean earbuds you used to be.
Sounds familiar? Our lives are just like these earbuds in the sense that we enter the real world, where we feel used by people. The kind of person will do anything in order to benefit themselves. Some of us were innocent enough to believe that helping this particular person was righteous and wise. But most people look good on the outside while on the inside, they’re not who they appear to be. And we might feel such a fool for even helping them in the first place.
Now, helping people is great but you have to first consider who you are helping and if that person is actually in need of that help and your action will not backfire. We must make sure that our kindness does not cross the line that which people will start taking us for granted and take advantage of our goodwill.
How to prevent being tangled like the earbuds.
Choose the right owner (friend)
Obviously, earbuds don’t have a choice who it is destined to produce music for one’s ears, but a person does have the freedom to choose the right friends. Choose friends wisely, they’re the ones who have your back most of the time, if not all the time. They’re the ones who give you the freedom to be yourself and love you for who you are, inside and out. A true friend is so rare in life that you have to really appreciate them and cherish them.
“Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious.”
-Herodotus
Be nice to people, but don’t be a fool.
However, meeting awful people in life is totally unavoidable. That one horrible person in your office, that relative that is annoying and dreadful, the list just goes on and on. But the key thing to remember is to never let those kinds of people control how you act and how you feel. If what they did or said affected you in any way, just forgive them.
The best way to live life without being affected by these people is just to either avoid them or just to be nice to them the best you can. But it is important to not be taken advantage of. Being nice is good, but only to an extent. Don’t be a fool. You can confront them personally and talk to them about it, which might work in some cases. But it usually requires them to reflect by themselves and start to realize that their attitude is putting other people down and that their personality needs a change.
“There are two kinds of people in the world: Givers and Takers. The takers might eat better but the givers sleep better”
Humans are imperfect. We have been ever since Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden and sinned against Him. Most people sometimes don’t know that they’re taking advantage of a person until that sudden moment where they do. It’s important that we never take a person for granted, especially if that person is someone close to us. Because one day will come when no one else would be there for you at your darkest and lowest times but your friends and family.
Finally, always remember to TREAT PEOPLE WITH KINDNESS!
