{"id":259407,"date":"2020-08-01T03:45:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=259407"},"modified":"2020-08-01T03:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T10:45:23","slug":"the-flaw-of-trying-to-help-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/01\/the-flaw-of-trying-to-help-others\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flaw of Trying to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Help\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve discovered in my life when I try to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153help\u00e2\u20ac\u009d others I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m always disappointed. Why? I expect them to become like me. But when they fail to do so, I feel <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/01\/why-am-i-always-disappointed-in-others\/\">disappointed<\/a>. As a consequence, perhaps I feel low-key spite or malice towards them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solution: dispel this notion of trying to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153help\u00e2\u20ac\u009d others. Sometimes I might be doing more harm than good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or change my expectations. Help others as a consequence of my hyper-abundance and joy, but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect anything from others. So keep helping others, and remove the <em><strong>expectation<\/strong><\/em> part from the equation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve discovered in my life when I try to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153help\u00e2\u20ac\u009d others I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m always disappointed. Why? I expect them to become like me. But when they fail to do so, I feel disappointed. As a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/93DCE6AB-CCD9-4D20-B92A-0E9E48889C74.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259413,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259407\/revisions\/259413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}