There are things in life I wish I was perfect in, these are things I also wish everyone in the world is perfect in. This is because I'm quite certain that if these things are in place, the holy book wouldn't say the heart of man is desperately wicked. I sometimes search my heart, motives, and actions and judge myself wicked for the decisions I choose to make. Although there are times when these actions are unarguably justified, like a time when I saw a beggar who was amputated on his left arm begging me for financial aid, I bluntly refused because I felt he was using his condition to take advantage of the general public. He was looking way healthier than I am and looked as though he even enjoyed begging as he was at a point giving change to some who said they wanted to give him but needed change from the money they wanted to give.

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EMPATHY

Empathy is the ability to understand the feelings of others and try to put yourself in their position. There are times when I judge myself for lacking empathy, and there are times when I try to understand how people feel. I see that it's easy to relate with people when you can put yourself in their position. It's always best when they can do so for you too. There will be no need for anger, strife, fighting, malice, and what have you. Imagine everyone in the world has empathy, a lot of things would be cheap, the masses would be duly considered at every point before governmental laws are made, and people will easily get help because everyone understands or try to understand what people go through.

Sometimes a friend tells me about their struggle and I hesitate to understand them because I lack empathy at that exact moment, which will in turn make it hard for me to render help to them. If everyone should have empathy, people wouldn't be selfish to serve their own interests first before others because everyone would be busy putting others before themselves, no one would be stingy, and love would be prevalent.

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HONESTY

I don't really know which attribute should come first between empathy and honesty, but I feel both would work very well together. This is because it will be easy to build trust knowing that the person asking for your help really needs the help and is not putting up a show of disguise or fraud. The reason why many find it difficult to help is because it's impossible to see the heart of the person asking for the help, it's impossible to know their intentions so you would not end up sacrificing your help for nothing. Sometimes help is costly, and if given cheaply would be abused but with honesty, it would be easy to know that help will never be abused.

I remember the times I had to lie to my parents to get money from them not minding where the money was coming from because I couldn't tell them what I really needed the money for. It turned out that most of the time I just wanted to squander money because my friends were doing so, and my parent's finances suffered for it. Just like me and the beggar I mentioned earlier, honesty is a vital attribute that I believe if everyone should have would make the world a better place.

ACT OF SERVICE

I don't just say this because it's my love language, I say this because I would never believe you love me if you don't show me. If everyone in the world should always put on an act of service, you are sure to note that people would mean every good deed they say, honesty and empathy would be clearly seen without an iota of doubt. People will become more trusting, lying will be escalated, and hard work will be the order of the day. Life is not hard, but our actions make it difficult for change to happen and as long as people tend to be selfish in their thoughts, there will always be a contention to eradicate love from the world.

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO THE HIVE NAIJA'S PROMPT FOR THE WEEK