I have lived for a few years now and have been able to meet or see people who need or have needed support in some specific way (or many), to whom, if I'm in the required conditions to offer it and give it, I try to offer and give support in the best way I can and according to my real possibilities as well. Always without asking for anything in return. On many occasions I have been the one who has needed some kind of support and I'm grateful to those who gave it to me without trade askings and in a unconditional way.
There might those who can confuse terms sometimes, when I say unconditional, I only mean that they don't ask for anything in return and don't set conditions to do so(support).
The thing is that, sometimes, there are those who give a greater magnitude to the word "unconditional", which might transform support into a kind of general sponsorship, that's why I clarify.
Each person, if they so wishes, offers and gives the support they believe they can offer and give selflessly, but I believe that from the moment when conditions are established to do so or something is requested in return, the fact ceases to be support to become a transaction that strips the true value and meaning to the word "support" itself.
I've seen it too much, very often and it's something a bit annoying to see to be honest.
I've seen it in Hive, though I haven't been here for a long time, but I do intend to remain quite a bit if possible. I believe that if a person decides to support someone, for whatever reason, they must first strip their minds of demands, censures, judgments, conditions and comparisons. We cannot think that the person whom we want to support sees and experience life or things through the same crystal that we do, nor do we have the right to demand it, much less establish conditions disguised as advice on the basis of our own experiences that we believe are the right way based on our reality(that's not theirs).
We know very well that what once worked for us doesn't necessarily have to work for someone else in the same way, cause in addition, that person's situation is not the same as ours, nor are their environment, reality, needs and circumstances. But even if it was alike, the variables of their environment don't behave in the same way as it could be for the rest, so that no solution based on our own particular experience is infallible or a 100 percent guarantee of success.
Yes it can be good advice to give and a very good form of learning to share.
Today, here in Hive, perhaps my vote doesn't have a high monetary value (something that I hope will change cause I strive for that as much as I can or am allowed to) but it has a value of appreciation, support, perception, applause, as the comments I make when I think a post deserves it. In order to decide if I give my vote and drop a comment on someone's post, I am not going to review the user profile, the KE or any other detail to allows me to get an idea of how the user manages the account finances in Hive or how much the user contributes to the platform from my, reduced and conditioned, point of view, heck no.
I'm not intersted in that, everyone is an adult and entirely responsible for their busyness, but above all, everyone manages their finances in their own way and I like to believe that their decisions are supported by good reasons that I or any of you surely don't know and probably understand. I really am not the one to judge or not to support your post (that I loved) because some formula tells me that you are extracting your hive and making it liquid. Guess, you'll probably have your reasons and surely when you are ready or allowed to by circumstances, you will do it in another way in which you can support the platform more.
Although you already do, as I do as well and everyone here, with some percents, withholdings, content, activity, etc.
In the same way I will do it( support and contribute more to the platform) when I can, because I like this place, which, without deceiving us, is also populated with certain injustices, as life itself is, of monopolies and hierarchical segmentation, like life itself is, and my way of thinking is not gonna change when my voting power(HP) is higher (Which I hope it is because I am trying hard for that to happen), no, I will support you if I like what you write or what you create, I will follow you and I will comment if I think you deserve it according to my humble appreciative opinion, but it will not be conditioned to what you do with your Hives or to you voting me back, follow me or comment me, do so if you like my content, if not, don't do it please, you owe me nothing even if I gave you my vote and support. If your content is of quality according to my standards, you will have my support, today with my low HP and tomorrow with a higher one (which will arrive). I ratify it.
And if one day I ask you for something in exchange for my support, or you appreciate that I criticize you for your elevated KE or "I disguised-advice" about what you should do with your finances to preserve my support, you can return to this post, reblogg it, repost it, tag me or whatever you come up with and tell me that I lied in this little reflection that I make here today.
If it's support, there are no conditions... If there are conditions, it ain't longer support.
