Good day, amazing people of the Hive blockchain. Welcome back to my blog. It is another edition in the #hivelearners community. I am so delighted to participate in this week's prompt, ASKING FOR HELP.
One thing I get to understand about life is that there comes a time when you will need someone's help, either for good or bad. I don't think we can exist in this life without asking someone for help or helping someone. If there is something I find so hard to do, it is asking someone for help. Whatever made me ask for help, just know that the situation is beyond me. I have sources for means within my power, and I was unable to solve the problem. Rather than dying in silence, I will speak out and ask for help, regardless of what people will say and think.
I am this kind of person that I pity. I dislike people pitying me; that is why I find it so hard to ask for help. My friends know that even in difficult moments I hardly come to them to ask for help. For me, it looks as if I am taking advantage of them.
One thing about us humans is we abuse some certain privileges. There are some people, even when they don't need help, they will go around begging people for help. I call it taking advantage of one kindness. Once you have this mindset of asking people for help, you will not be able to hustle because you always depend on people, which is very bad.
No matter how I try to act strong, I can do it on my own; I don't need help from anyone to survive. But life has a way of throwing us off balance. There will come a time that we need to rely on people; help is always there for me to ask someone for help. On a second thought, I ask myself, 'What if I die because of my silence?'
I have friends that are financially okay, but then I don't like disturbing them. In the year 2020, my dad was very ill, and he needed to go for surgery. I emptied my account, but still, I was not able to get the money for the surgery. Do you know the funny part? I go out with these friends; I laugh and chat with them, but I never open my mouth to tell them what I am passing through. I dislike stressing people with my personal problems.
At a point I couldn't keep it to myself again because if I fail to speak up, I will lose my dad, and if that happens, I will never forgive myself. As we went out for our normal hangout, I was shedding tears, and they asked me what the problem was. I explained to them the problem I was in of how I needed money to pay for my dad's surgery. They asked me how long I had kept that from them, and I told them over four months. They were so mad at me, and immediately they raised funds for my dad's surgery. Not only that, they sustained my dad for 6 months. That was when I realized that a closed mouth is a closed destiny.
The main reason I don't ask for funds is because I don't want people to mock me. Most times, I am so afraid of receiving no as an answer that I think it is better to try rather than not try at all. I ask for help only when necessary.
This is my response on the ongoing #hivelearners topic asking for help.
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