ingratitude

INGRATITUDE'S COMEUPPANCE Ingratitude is a pretentious parasite. Ingratitude is a vice that abuses, consumes, and misuses others': bodies, time, air, food, drink, shelter, clothing, aid, money, love, sacrifice, compassion, labor, discoveries, gifts, history, creations, lands, inventions, values, pain, loss, worry, sickness, even death , and burial, while giving nothing in return; often without even so much a simple "thank you!" Ingratitude is greedy, scornful, vain, and imperiously contemptuous, deigning all others its lowly servants. Such traits are embedded in baleful Ingratitude's DNA, RNA and reason for being, all the while hidden under its fake smile, behind opportunistic bonds of kin, race, nationality, creed, community, friendship, or fraternity. Look around! Ingratitude is preening everywhere: talking but not doing; taking but not giving; sneering but not saluting; laughing but not loving; reaping but not sowing; gathering, thriving off of the thrill of its deceit. One-way only is is woeful narrative. From others to it, but nothing of substance from it to them, its tale! Ingratitude is more than snooty attitude, and lack of grace. it is also rapacious as an eagle, wily as a weasel in practice, slippery and slimy, conniving and beguiling. Despite all of this, though, it is yet much too vain to perceive that its peculation, its fraud has finally been peeped by its ersatz prey; weighed, measured, found wanting, uncovered. Restitution, justice, truth, & balance are ensnaring Ingratitude in its own spoils; reproving it with own profits: disgorged and restored to its victims. We are witnesses to and enablers of this human course correction! Amen! Let us make sure that you, me, us, and we, are not also infected by its invidious germ!