Let me make myself very clear about this particular subject! Some of the fundamental characteristics of truly successful people (people with a sense of fulfillment) are, ingenuity, their dignity, and a healthy sense of ego.
When you put yourself in the position of being bought and sold you are forfeiting all of the things I just mentioned. If you want to develop success you have to develop ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Selling your body is not being resourceful! It is a means to an end that people in very desperate isolated situations resort to. The price being your mental health in the short, medium, and long-term! When you don’t have your mental health because you’ve compromised it, you spend the rest of your life spinning in your head like a crack addict! Making you difficult to date, unable to live with yourself, and difficult to work with. Not to mention that you become so wrapped up in your own misery that you are unable to see the world around you and the needs of others. Yes these are the results of selling yourself. It is a very very very very difficult climb back up. Not to mention that now you have tainted the very education you have sold your body for. I am not coming from a place of religion, or some dictatorial point of view because I need to be right. I’m coming from personal experience. What’s not being talked about here is how this affects the psyche of the person selling themselves in the long term. Once you do this it will always stay with you. When you’re feeling down about yourself this makes the downward spiral even deeper as the years pass. Because you know in the end that you have compromised your self-worth and your self respect. Only a very lucky few are able to get out of the cycle that this creates. And when I say lucky few I’m talking about the odds that are equivocal to winning the jackpot for Powerball lottery (don’t delude yourself). Let me break this down: when you’re selling yourself for what you think is a good thing (your education) you have succeeded in rationalizing a ruinous action towards your self. not to mention you have tainted your education and put it in a negative context because you have had to sell your body for it. So when you look back on your college days and everybody else is reminiscing about the things it taught them like resilience and ingenuity and resourcefulness. You’ll have to look back and cope with the feelings that aren’t as nice as their’s about a time in your life that should have been celebrated with joy and dignity. You may be young and beautiful now, and you may have the idea that you can handle anything. You have one life. Serve yourself and others with dignity. If you do you will be the change that this world needs. instead of resorting to prostitution Start developing your interpersonal skills and learning how to ask for the support that you need with fearlessness. Develop your vision for the future in a positive light. Work consistently and diligently with lots of self-discipline towards a specific goal. Learn how to budget your energy and your resources. True friends are going to be your greatest assets. But you must be a giver as well as a taker. Learn how to calculate what your needs are going to be so that they can be met realistically without compromising your mental health and your physical health. Great business people learn how to find answers and there don’t seem to be any. You need to learn how to persist in the face of adversity.
Here is a fable that has resonated with me and others who insist on doing justice to ourselves and others. An old Cherokee told his grandson, “My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside all of us one is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, and truth.”
The boy thought about it and asked, “grandfather, which wolf wins?” The old man quietly replied “the one you feed.” – Author unknown
