Roman Simon on Nostr: Don’t do good — you won’t get evil. No. I helped a person. Now he doesn’t ...

Don’t do good — you won’t get evil.

No.

I helped a person. Now he doesn’t even say hello to me.

That’s right.

What’s right?

You’re a bill to him. People hide from bills.

I didn’t ask him for anything.

Then why did you get offended? You got the evil not for the good deed, but because you were waiting for change. What good have you done for me?

Plenty.

List it.

I picked up your car. Helped with the move. Lent you money.

Stop! And what have I done for you?

Well, there was something.

What?

I don’t remember.

Here are the tapes. My “there was something.” That’s not memory — that’s bookkeeping.

Fine. I helped a person. He didn’t even say thank you.

A stranger?

One of my own.

A stranger would have said it.

Why don’t one’s own say it?

To a stranger you did good. To one of your own — you did what he already expected from you. You didn’t do good. You gave on credit and called it kindness.

So don’t do good then.

Do it.

And just put up with it?

Don’t present the bill.

And if I do?

You’ll get evil from yourself for an unpaid bill.

Don’t do good — you won’t get evil.

Do it, just don’t keep score. You gave and remember — that means you sold it. You gave and forgot — that means you gifted it.