My friend was telling me about certain relatives. One of them had bought a house for his parents; his brother gave the parents a sum of money every month. Though the money spent by the first was far more, my friend felt that the second was better, as he contributed to his parents constantly and steadily.
This reminds me of a famous quote:
"Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed out drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
What he means is that if you want to do bad things, do them all in one go, but if you want to do good things, spread them out.
So remember, if you want to do people favors, ten small favors are better than one big one. Ten small presents are better than one big one, even if they cost less money.
And buying many small inexpensive presents for your bf/gf is better than buying one big one.
But if you act bad at the first place then suddenly you change your attitude to good, people will appreciate your good attitude more.
ReplyDeleteyaya, so you do all the bad stuff in one shot first, then after that dole out the good deeds slowly
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