Love can make you do strange things–
“strange” to other people–
especially “strange” to other people who don’t have love–
but what’s really strange about love is–
when people who don’t have love eventually have it–
there is much less strange about it to them, now
Wisdom is knowing what is right, normal, healthy, helpful–
or just plain natural–and knowing it from experience–
and being able to apply that knowledge or let its display, be
Genius is having wisdom–
And being able to apply that wisdom–or let its display, be-
Without experience
Help is giving love, wisdom, genius and ability to the self or others–
free of attachment, payment or expectation
People often help one another with a mixture of love, wisdom and–
Sometimes genius–but often not free of attachment
Helping others is often–if not usually–a good (we can enable harm–which is no help)
But some people attempt to help others with strings attached to that “help”;
they want conformity, reciprocity or convenience in offering assistance
They don’t want to upset their own plans too far;
and they prefer guarantees of relative ease:
This is not help, so much as it is self-help–for themselves–and for others’ eyes
You can recognize this type of “help”, as it is not selfless;
It comes with expectations, accounting–even blame…
when it doesn’t produce expected outcomes–
when the “help” is not paid back with much praise, or good results
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