{"id":83,"date":"2016-11-18T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T14:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zoezulu.wordpress.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2020-06-25T19:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:46:05","slug":"you-cant-save-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/2016\/11\/18\/you-cant-save-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Save Them All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-716\" src=\"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/benjamin-voros-as5uAH_bSLw-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/>Some people would rather remain in the darkness than be confronted with the unsavoury truth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trying to advise such people is like talking to a brick wall. You&#8217;d be wasting your breath in a desperate attempt to appeal to them. You&#8217;ve warned them once? Walk away. You can take a horse to the river but you cannot force it to drink. We can only do so much. You standing up to address the issue at hand is good enough. Don&#8217;t waste a wink of sleep over it because you&#8217;ve done all that you could&#8217;ve done. Persistent nagging may lead to further resentment. <strong>Maybe<\/strong> deep down they are aware that you only intend to help them but many a time they think you are hateful, judgemental and &#8220;jealous&#8221; for even daring to say anything. They wind up despising you and seeking comfort from those who have the capacity to stomach their repugnant behaviour.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never been without a flaw, who hasn&#8217;t? I also lack the ability to let things like that pass, I for one would stop you dead in your tracks and tell you to take heed of your actions. If you cared about the person wouldn&#8217;t you do the same?<br \/>\nThese people are often so deluded and have been destroyed and consumed by the choices they&#8217;ve made, they fail to overcome the deceit, the pride&#8230;and now they have fallen.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t save them all.<\/p>\n<p>Say it louder for the people with <em><strong>Saviour Syndrome.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>And I couldn&#8217;t help her anymore, I just watched her make the same mistakes again.&#8221; &#8211; Avril Lavigne<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people would rather remain in the darkness than be confronted with the unsavoury truth. Trying to advise such people is like talking to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,64,146],"class_list":{"0":"post-83","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-choices","8":"tag-criticism","9":"tag-you-cant-save-them-all"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}