Quote For This Week:
Asking for help doesn’t make you a burden, it makes you a human.
Human is a social animal. Communication, understanding, thoughts and emotions make humans different from other animals.
To interact is one of the greatest gifts humans are blessed with. It is very beneficial to talk about things— may it be celebrating your joy or sharing your sorrow.
As for help — who doesn’t need it? As a baby, you needed help. When you’re of old age, you’d probably need help as well. Everyone needs help and everyone helps, in some or the other way. Sometimes, we feel like we’d be ashamed of ourselves if we ask for help or it makes others think of us as a burden, but that’s not correct. Asking for help is one of the basic qualities of every human.
No one on this planet has all the secrets to life figured out, do they? If it seems to you that they do, we can assure you they must have asked for help whenever they needed it, without hesitation. If you don’t ask for help even when you need to, how are you going to learn, know and grow? You can only work on the things you have experience with, and if there’s something you don’t know how to do, of course you’ll have to ask someone who’s more knowledgeable, stronger and/or experienced than you are, depending on the kind of help you need. If you hesitate then, you will never be able to learn more and will only stay where you are in life. It is quite important to ask for help if you need it, to keep moving forward on your path, without speed-breakers that can come in the form of shyness in this regard.
Asking for help doesn’t always mean any sort of physical help. It can mean someone supporting you emotionally, being there for you, understanding and loving you as well. Even if they talk to you openly, that’s a sort of help. Communication is as essential for a human being as helping is. Thus, whenever any thought bothers you, speak up to someone. That’s also a form of asking help.
Help yourself — well, you say you do it every second, don’t you? Well, sometimes, when you’re thinking negatively or being pessimistic, you’re not helping yourself. Whenever you’re procrastinating for no reason under the name of “relaxing”, you’re not helping yourself. Whenever you’re stopping yourself from seeking help, you’re not helping yourself. That’s something you should also do, helping yourself.
Helping each other and yourself will develop stronger bonds of trust and communication, as it has been seen that if a person helps someone else, they have a more positive image of each other in their mind. If you share your problems with someone to let them help you, it will make both of you feel good too, as being able to help someone and getting help from someone trustworthy are both “gifts”.
So the next time you feel hesitant to ask for help, know that you are not being a burden on the other person (of course ask if they’re free to help you first), know that it is perfectly fine to ask for help, that it’s for your own benefit, to help you grow, and it also puts the other person’s knowledge to use, in a way, because what use is it if they just keep it to themselves?
Final thoughts:
All of us need help, and it is nothing to be ashamed of, worried or embarassed about, since not everyone knows everything about everything. It’s impossible. So, ask for help whenever you need it. It will be great for your own self. After all, how long are you going to be struggling to solve that problem on your own?
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— JHS and AY!
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