I’m not a selfish person, but life teaches you lessons.
If your friend doesn’t have a car and you loan them yours, then they wreck it… who’s the one without a car now? Not your friend — they already didn’t have one. Now YOU don’t have one either.
You can apply that logic to almost anything and the outcome is usually the same.
That’s why I don’t loan my stuff out anymore.
It’s not because I’m selfish. It’s because I wasn’t.
I’ve given away kitchen tables, chairs, dishes, TVs, computers, phones, clothes — all kinds of things. Giving is one thing. Loaning is another.
When you give something away, you already accepted it may never come back. When you loan something, people often treat your sacrifice like it costs you nothing.
So no, I’m not “stingy.” I just learned the hard way that protecting what’s yours doesn’t make you selfish. It makes you wiser than you used to be.
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