I chatted with one of my fellow students of Reiki class. She hosted my Japanese Reiki teacher to a Reiki retreat tour in Sedona, AZ in next month. The fee is a huge amount of money so I told her I won’t be able to attend the tour. She seems to really like me because she does not give up on me and keeps asking me if I change my mind to come or not.
This time, while we chatted over the phone, she proposed me a new offering. She desperately wants me to join the group so she decided to give me a free accommodation. My family and I can stay free at the vacation rental house that she rented. The house had 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. She has another two groups to share the house and each paid groups will have their own bathroom. They have one vacant bedroom so that she can offer us to use the room to us privately, but we have to share one bathroom with her. Her offering sounds attractive to me. The house has a kitchen with gas stoves, a huge refrigerator, and a washer and drier. It also has a BBQ grill and a jacuzzi in the back yard.
I was all excited for this great offer. After I hang up the phone, I mentioned to my husband. He was very reluctant to share a house with strangers. Also, due to the normal house structure, most likely each house does not have a room key to lock. He doesn’t feel comfortable to leave our personal item unattended without locking the room. Also he doesn’t want to take any change to get blamed if something is missing in other people’s personal belongings. When he said these, now I fully understand what he means. I agreed with him to turn down this offer. We would rather pay on our own hotel room so that we will freely comes in and go out without any extra stress or obligations.
I almost forgot the golden rule. Free is the most dangerous offer. It comes with stress and obligation. I would rather pay the reasonable cost to win my freedom and peace of mind.
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