Summary: Perpetual Victims All around us are people that have had real life issues. However, we have to beware of the ones that have decided to be perpetual victims. Sympathy, to a perpetual victim, is like giving a rock to a crack addict. The more they get, the more they want. Yes we sympathize with others plight, but there has to be limits so that we don't end up empowering their weakness. If you want to help a perpetual victim, at some point you have to let go of the once that would rather rehearse their saga, while resisting any efforts toward real change. Hitting rock bottom could be the only thing to make them seek real help over temporal relief for the moment.
