The Little Help You Can Render

Sometimes, it is not the volume of help you offer that makes it potent but the necessity of it. There are times where even the slightest help that you can offer to someone could be the only hope they have to survive. You have to be sensitive enough not to deny them help when it matters most in their lives. You may not know what the person has been passing though and your little help can restore their hope in humanity.

Something happened a few months back and I understood that size of help does not equal to relevance but the promptness of the help does. I went into a shop to get a few things and as I was rounding up my shopping, a woman looking very thirsty walked into the shop to buy sachet water. The woman had 1k Naira note but the sachet water costs 10 Naira.

The shop owner quickly replied "madam there is no change, I can't sell" without considering the woman. The woman stood there with her money but desperately in need of water. I reached out to my pocket and grabbed 10 Naira and gave to the shop owner and the water was given to the woman. After the woman drank the water, the way she thanked me sent cold chills down my spine. To me, I was wondering if it is because of the small water that she is thanking me this way?

I quickly realized that at that point, the water was the only thing that mattered to her and denying her that would break her. You see, a relevant help may be the smallest one that you did in the time of desperate need. You will be surprised how a little help could create a massive impact in the life of someone. Believe me, if you have ever been in a state that you desperately need help, you will understand what desperation means.

The world is already full of dark times and full of so much cruelty that your small acts of kindness can lift someone up, restore his hopes, and serve as a light to him. In a very dark room in a dark night, the smallest light you introduce will make a huge impact. In the same way, in this dark times, your help could be the only hope that someone has.

It is worthy to note that no help is irrelevant nor ordinary. A bottle of champagne may be very costly but it does not hold as much value as a glass of water to someone that is very thirsty. In each day of your life, resolve within you to render at least one help to someone. I ask you, is their a greater joy than causing someone to be happy because of your help towards them? This is exactly the thing that humanity demands from us.

If at the end of the day and you cannot point to a particular help that you rendered to someone, then you have not fulfilled the demands of humanity for that day. What matters is not how much resources or wealth that you have but how you have used it to help humanity.

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