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RE: Hope for the artist: Will you help an artist out?
"... not worth mentioning."
Except when you are financially in the basement, and you need help RIGHT NOW.
Sorry man, but... there are people in this world who really do need help from others, who are not loosers or drug addicts or alcoholics, and for whom in that moment there really is no other way.
If you don't believe in helping anyone who is in need, that's your thing. If you've never experienced what it's like to have your health or home depend on other people giving, I'm glad for you. But if you have no compassion for those who have no choice but to ask... I'm sorry, but that just does not paint a very good picture of you.
She has nothing to be ashamed of. Those who have no compassion for others, on other hand...
Thanks for the defence there :). He and I worked it out, and it's nice to see the dialogue that came back. I like you both a lot!
@iceflower: I think in some way you are right with your reply. But I don't think I am a bad guy although it seems a bit hard words with my first reply. But I am not refusing help, as I am following and upvoting many posts of her and other artists that are creating original authentic content, I appreciate that very much because I am presenting my compositions on steemit too. Further more I am helping people out if they have real needs. And as far as I could tell from the conversation with kayclarity she's absolutely right with what she's doing. I first was misleaded by the way the post turned out, so I judged or at least questioned the intention. Compassion is distributed very inflationary on the internet (for the fact that most of the people that you're compassionate about you don't really know, espacially on a platform that is paying dollars for clicks your compassion easily could be exploited). Because there seems to be real needs I don't judge kayclarity's intention anymore. I was just questioning... didn't want to offend her personally. And the "not worth mentioning" thing is just my personal way of questioning people's way to get along with more or less illness and stuff like that. For example the illness she's got is not a thing which is extraordinary to me, even with my friends there are two of them that I could mention, that are caught by the same disease, they even had parts of their thyroids been removed. Modern medicin is helping out, it's almost no problem in their daily life at all (although of course they have to struggle more than a 100% healthy person, but for them it would not be worth mentioning it). Hope that helps for explanation.
Thanks for taking time to respond so graciously. The truth is that my diagnosis is only very recent, and until now, I have just been debilitated from working any kind of regular job due to the fatigue, without hope of it ever changing. It will likely be a few more months until I really start feeling better.. so in the meantime, Steem feels like a Godsend of hope--even just a few hundred dollars a month would totally change things for me! xx