How Doing Favours Wins You So Much More

If my hope and joy evaporate for any reason, so it seems does my innate willingness to 'meet' people and their needs of me. Failing to oblige someone when it might be a big kindness to them but of relatively low cost to me, means missing an opportunity--obliging is a worthwhile activity in anyone's language. Taking care to be obliging often costs very little for much potential gain. Sage Balthasar Gracian's wisdom is tapped into here.