{"id":1330,"date":"2021-09-05T02:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T02:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2022-07-17T18:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T18:57:18","slug":"giving-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/en\/giving-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came back to drink beer again.<\/p>\n<p>I was having a great Saturday with awesome beer.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s very healthy to do at least one thing you like to do in a day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, I would like to talk about giving.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been a giver in my life.<\/p>\n<p>My parents gave to me.<\/p>\n<p>My friends have given to me.<\/p>\n<p>My girlfriend gave to me.<\/p>\n<p>I was given by those around me.<\/p>\n<p>I never gave of myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\/\/\/\/ Giving Love\/\/\/\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the past, if I did something for them (birthday gifts, telling them how I felt, giving them love, etc.), it meant I was giving to them and they were giving to me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I used to think that it was mutual.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But I realized that it was actually self-satisfaction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I realized the difference between self-satisfied giving and non-satisfied giving.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The difference between self-satisfied giving and non-self-satisfied giving is that when you give, you don&#8217;t expect anything in return from the other person.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Probably, I automatically ask for the love that will be returned after most of the giving.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>It is only when we grow up and experience unpleasant experiences or situations where we don&#8217;t get affection back that we start to feel that it is okay.<\/p>\n<p>And if you are not used to it, you will always have the feeling of &#8220;I am&#8221; which is centered on your own feelings.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a partner, your life is boring.<\/p>\n<p>We should live for the sake of others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you don&#8217;t have to consume yourself unnecessarily, but I give freely to those who I want to make happy.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually a very difficult thing to do in the relationships.<\/p>\n<p>But the people around me have always done it for me.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, I&#8217;ve always been given to without taking any risks.<\/p>\n<p>It was very easy to live for me.<\/p>\n<p>From now on, I want to return for them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned to be happy with who I am.<\/p>\n<p>I want to take risks and give love.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I can actively take risks and give love to others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zen Jin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came back to drink beer again. I was having a great Saturday with awesome beer. I think it&#8217;s very healthy to do at least one thing you like to do in a day. &nbsp; Today, I would like to talk about giving. I have always been a giver in my life. My parents gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/?p=1330","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-self-analysis","8":"en-US"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.route66.dresslake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}