Mar 24, 2016 The Daily Post

In response to The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt:  Help

Help Taken and Help Given
©March 25th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

Help may be asked, and you may give it, but don’t expect thanks.

You may need help, and someone gives it, but do not forget.

It takes true freedom for people to thank you for helping them.  Everyone things he or she is beholden to no one.  And it takes true freedom for you to thank those who’ve helped you.  In both cases, pride gets in the way.  Shame gets in the way, as well.

Think before you offer help.  What do you truly want out of it?

Think before you take help.  Will you truly acknowledge it without fear of being thought weak or helpless?

Discard pride.  Discard shame.  Simply admitting you need help is a sign of strength.

Everything, including this realization, comes in its own time, and dawns on us when we are ready to acknowledge it:

All help given and all help taken connects us, one to the other, vast strands of life holding onto a tenuous, unseen rope-ladder of evolving goodness.

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