I've been watching how some of my friends treat each other and how the others feel about they way they feel they are being treated. I've been thinking about what St. Paul says in Galatians 6:7 "... whatsoever a man soweth, that he shall also reap" (KJV). I don't believe this applies just to how we treat others, or our own actions outward toward others or to inanimate objects; I think this also applies to how we teach other people to treat us.
If we allow someone to appear to take advantage of us, that's our choice and it has consequences both for us and for the person who seems to be taking advantage of us. If we resist someone who appears to desire to take advantage of our 'good nature', there are choices and consequences to that action as well. Each of us gets to decide in the bigger picture, through our choices and actions, where we want to be on this continuum of choice and consequence, cause and effect.
There's also a tangent about how we treat and think about ourselves. If we see ourselves in a generally positive light then we tend to get positive outcomes, and tend to have positive experiences (or at least we can more easily find that silver lining in the cloud). If we tend to see ourselves in a negative light, that's what we get, too.
We are responsible for our actions, our choices, our decisions and how we experience what we allow to happen to us. There are no victims, everything is an opportunity to see something or someone in a new light and choose differently if we don't like a particular outcome. It's all sowing and reaping and sowing and reaping again and again and again.
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