No, This Is Not an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
There’s a particular kind of advice that floats around like a motivational screensaver. That advice is to never regret being a good person.It sounds lovely. Clean. Almost saint-adjacent.And then you meet people.Not all people. But enough of them. The ones who take your kindness, hold it up to the light, and think, ah yes, this will be useful. The ones who don’t just receive goodwill. They…














