:idea: Don’t let people take advantage of you! :idea:
The Rule of Papaya.
First time my good friend Alfredo - a good Colombian - told me about the papaya rule I didn’t really believe him. That was because he told me before I tried to live here in Colombia for a longer time. After living here I can see that the papaya rule is alive and well and something that the Colombians live by without even thinking about it.
The papaya rule consists of two simple sentences but underneath these lie a lot of interpretations. First let's take a look at the rules:
Rule number one: You cannot give papaya to anyone! Rule number two: If you see papaya you have to take it! These are the rules as simple as they look. But lets take a closer look at the two.
First of all the word papaya is not the main thing in the sentence. It could have been any fruit or any other object for that matter. I’m not really sure why it was papaya and not something else that was chosen, but no importa as we say.
Papaya in this context means more or less everything and even situations!
You should not do anything that lets other people take advantage of you. If you are a girl and you wear a short skirt you are giving papaya to all the guys who look at your legs! Don’t leave your house without locking the door, don’t park your nice car in the center of town at night and don’t leave your wallet unattended.
Why not? - because you are giving papaya!
These are a few examples of more or less material things, but the rule also applies to things that you say or do. If you tell your friends that you did some really stupid thing the other day and they laugh at you for the rest of your life it is your own fault. You gave them papaya, and according to rule number one you cannot give papaya.
Well you can then say that the friends who laugh at you are not really good friends, but that is not true. They are your best friends and will stay your best friends even after that.
Here we get down to rule number two. It clearly states that if you are telling your friends that you did something stupid they HAVE to make fun of you. They simply have no choice other than do so. If not – they will break the second papaya rule.
The moral of the story "THINK". For those of you that have never lived in a rough neighborhood or a third world country the rule above is how most people live.
The only reason I post this is because people post a flame about this person taking <insert object here> then the next three pages of the post is how stupid everyone is for for telling them they should not have loaned it out. If you continue to live in your sugar coted world were every is honest you are going to wind up a bitter person. 8)
The Rule of Papaya.
First time my good friend Alfredo - a good Colombian - told me about the papaya rule I didn’t really believe him. That was because he told me before I tried to live here in Colombia for a longer time. After living here I can see that the papaya rule is alive and well and something that the Colombians live by without even thinking about it.
The papaya rule consists of two simple sentences but underneath these lie a lot of interpretations. First let's take a look at the rules:
Rule number one: You cannot give papaya to anyone! Rule number two: If you see papaya you have to take it! These are the rules as simple as they look. But lets take a closer look at the two.
First of all the word papaya is not the main thing in the sentence. It could have been any fruit or any other object for that matter. I’m not really sure why it was papaya and not something else that was chosen, but no importa as we say.
Papaya in this context means more or less everything and even situations!
You should not do anything that lets other people take advantage of you. If you are a girl and you wear a short skirt you are giving papaya to all the guys who look at your legs! Don’t leave your house without locking the door, don’t park your nice car in the center of town at night and don’t leave your wallet unattended.
Why not? - because you are giving papaya!
These are a few examples of more or less material things, but the rule also applies to things that you say or do. If you tell your friends that you did some really stupid thing the other day and they laugh at you for the rest of your life it is your own fault. You gave them papaya, and according to rule number one you cannot give papaya.
Well you can then say that the friends who laugh at you are not really good friends, but that is not true. They are your best friends and will stay your best friends even after that.
Here we get down to rule number two. It clearly states that if you are telling your friends that you did something stupid they HAVE to make fun of you. They simply have no choice other than do so. If not – they will break the second papaya rule.
The moral of the story "THINK". For those of you that have never lived in a rough neighborhood or a third world country the rule above is how most people live.
The only reason I post this is because people post a flame about this person taking <insert object here> then the next three pages of the post is how stupid everyone is for for telling them they should not have loaned it out. If you continue to live in your sugar coted world were every is honest you are going to wind up a bitter person. 8)
sorry the above posting by Danyal is from Scrumpy... i accidentally logged in as my roomate :roll:
