I’m taken for granted when my good-deeds and good-will are taken as read, when it’s just assumed that I’ll act with generosity and compliance regardless of whether expectations of others are reasonable or deserved. It grinds me down when others seem to feel that my efforts are exerted without personal sacrifice, or without any cost or pain on my part and hence don’t need to be acknowledged, appreciated or reciprocated.

Toby Hazlewood

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