You Got

You ever had a neighbor, a friend, a family member or somebody that always wanna know if “you got?”

You got $5.00 til Friday, you got milk, you got some soap powder, you got a egg, you got cooking oil, you got some plies I can use, you got a lawn mower, you got 2 slices of bread I can borrow… Borrow?

I can borrow yo car? I can use yo phone? You can watch my lil boy til I come back? I can borrow yo curling iron?I can wash my clothes by yo house? I can use yo wifi password… 

No, no, no and NO, so stop asking.
But just imagine, all those “You Gots” be from the same person.

Now mind you, it's okay to borrow from time to time. I'm not saying nothing is wrong with that, because I have had to borrow too at one time or another, it just wasn't every day, all day.

But why should they go out and get it for themselves if they know they can always get it from you?

It's okay to be giving, nice and helpful to people, but at what point does it turns to dependency and expectation, where the person depends on you and EXPECTS you to have and give every time they ask? And ask yourself, are you enabling this behavior?

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