What would you do if someone you knew needed help but you weren’t the one who could necessarily deliver that help? Would you stand on your head and gargle peanut butter? Say, “Forget it”? Ignore it? Or would you do everything in your power to make it right?
My take: People should help each other in this world. And the more difficult it is to help the more it’s necessary. It sure would be easy to go with “it’s not my problem.” But it’s never really that way, is it? It’s just not how I was brought up. I’m okay with that.
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i hate nothing more than feeling powerless and not being able to physically help out when i really want to.
Albert, you got it exactly. That’s the worst for me.
Wow. Pretty bad. You try to do what you can.
Did you have a bad day? You OK??
Stuff jumps off the tracks from time to time. I’m all fine…our friend, less so.
We live in a world of scarcity. We live among men and women of innate volition. We are temporal.
At some point, you need to choose how much of yourself you can invest in rectifying a given scarcity and a given decision. Because you are scarce too. You are temporal too. Some of you can be invested, even in a losing cause because it is the right thing to do, but there are other right things that also need to be reserved for.
Your own peace, development and happiness are worth reserving for.
Bill, wow. Powerful advice, indeed. I’ve read and re-read what you wrote several times. You’re right…thanks for the perspective.