Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything impossibly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. When most people you are associated with are jealous of you or embarrassed of you that is an interesting experience. If people are jealous of you, it means that there is something that you have that they want, and if people are embarrassed of you, it means they do not see your true value.  For example, let us put this in economic terms. What would happen to your demand for cookies if you lost your job one summer? Most likely, it would fall. A lower income means that you have less to spend in total, so you would have to spend less on some, and probably most—goods.

If the demand for a good falls when income falls, the good is called a normal good. So, in other terms people are jealous of you because they know you are a normal good. So to make you seem less desirable, they make up hellacious stories about you and antagonize people who support  you so they will be embarrassed of you. More than likely critics  will point out differences, such as your culture. Then you will notice that people you cherish, and once valued you will back off of you and appreciate others who look more like them. In this instance, you have become an inferior good. Not all goods are normal goods. If the demand for a good rises when income falls, the good is called an inferior good. An example of an inferior good might be a bike ride. As your income falls, you are less likely to buy a car or take a cab and more likely to ride a bike because that is all you can qualify for.

Sometimes people are not so attractive because of their personality or past behavior and not many want anything to do with them. However, they know you have a skill for promoting and boosting images. So these types of people may hitch their tow to your bumper to get you to support them, while they lead you on and make you think they care about you, until their image is repaired and they get more opportunities. As their income and likeability increases, you become an inferior good to them. However, remember, the secret of the heart is its pressing love of self.

So, if you notice people are using you, and only seek you out when their incomes are falling or their careers are not in high demand, ignore them. Let someone seek you out and love you for who you are not what you can do. You have to shift your own demand curve by being more selective about the type of people you choose to interact with. To change the type of energy you are attracting, just be more selective.

The most obvious determinant of your demand is your tastes. Because market demand is derived from individual appeals, it depends on several factors that determine the demand of the individual buyers, including buyers incomes, tastes, expectations, and the prices of related good. In addition, it depends on the number of buyers. If Ian, another consumer of cookies, were to join Christina and Nicholas, the quantity demanded in the market would be higher at every price, and the demand curve would shirt to the right.

In other words, while it is good to love altruistically, do not let yourself be used. If you give so much to others and they start to get noticed and have not even said so much as “Thank you,” let go of them without being bitter. The moment you notice that you are being used and the relations does not feel good, back off to prevent yourself from becoming an inferior good. When you support those who are truly attracted to you and care about you, this actually makes you more appealing to others because if you help people who care about you, they brag to others about you and that makes you more attractive and you will become a superior good.

Those who used you as an inferior good, to boost their image, well, after you leave them alone and people see them for who they really are and they will cool off. When you stop saying good things about something, people will remember why they do not like it. A man without sensibility exhibits no sign of a soul.  On a side note, looking over my life, I noticed that I was more successful and appealing when I was myself, when I did not feel sorry for people. Sometimes being nice and caring really is a hindrance to you.

My feelings cannot be hurt. No one wishes to harm me, and there is nothing in me that can believe in any separation from All Good. I perceive that I am free from all people, and I cannot be harmed nor mistreated. I have such a sense of unity with all the circle is complete and perfect. I love my friends and they love me, and that love is in, and of, God, and cannot be marred nor hindered. I am filled with joy and love, forever. And remember, anyone can be attractive, but it is their personality that makes you want to stay.

No matter how much magic you do, a bad personality will resurface, making the object less attractive. I keep the promise. I shall keep the promise that I have made to myself. I shall never again tell myself that I am poor, sick, weak nor unhappy. I shall not lie to myself any more, but shall daily speak the truth to my inner Soul, telling It that It is wonderful and marvelous; that It is One with the Great Cause of all Life, Truth, Power, and Action. I shall whisper these things into my Soul until it breaks forth into songs of joy with the realization of Its Limitless possibilities.