People Who Keep Consuming Good Will
The Illusion of Free Consultation
"Could you just teach me a little bit?"
How many times have professionals heard these words?
Lawyers, consultants, tax accountants, engineers, designers...
Because of existing relationships or out of good will, they end up responding.
But what awaits beyond that is sometimes a quiet, yet certain, price to pay.
When people get used to offering their time for free,
they start to assume that the other person's time is also worthless.
There is no malice in that. It is merely an unconscious arrogance called "entitlement."
"You're a professional, so just a little bit..."
The person saying this does not realize how much disregard for dignity is hidden in those words.
However, karma is cruelly fair.
Those who refuse the clearest form of compensation—money—will inevitably pay in another way.
It is a payment that is invisible, yet it surely erodes one's life.
Before you know it, those around you will quietly categorize you as a "shameless person."
They will smile at you on the surface, but keep their distance in their hearts.
When a truly critical situation arises, no one will genuinely reach out to help you.
By the time you realize that fact, it is often too late.
There is an even colder truth.
Those who belittle the time of others
will eventually find their own time being belittled in the same way.
Even though you want to believe somewhere in your heart that "I am a person of value,"
your actions continue to deny it.
Knowledge obtained for free is often shallow,
and instead of helping you grow, it is consumed merely as "convenient information."
As a result, the depth of your life, your trust, and your dignity quietly wear away.
This is not a punishment.
It is simply a law of nature.
The act of continuously exploiting a professional's time for free
is like constantly declaring to the world, "I am a person not worth paying for."
That declaration will one day return as reality.
With a silence that makes your spine freeze.
Of course, I do not mean to say that all consultations are evil.
Salvation for those truly in need, mutual aid within deep relationships of trust—these are precious.
The problem lies in the unconscious habit of mistaking good will for "something owed," and cutting into the time of others' lives for one's own convenience.
Which side are you standing on right now?
I would like you to quietly reflect on your own actions.
And if a cold wind blows somewhere in your heart—
that might just be a small glimmer of salvation, a sign that there is still time.
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