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Asking for Help Does NOT Make You Weak
The power and positivity of kindness, compassion, and empathy
It can be difficult to ask for help.
This is especially challenging now when so many forces equate asking for help as a weakness, unbecoming, and something to be avoided.
That’s simply not true.
Asking for help does NOT make you weak. What it does is make you open to receive kindness, compassion, and empathy.
I don’t care who you are or what your circumstances might be. You have an innate desire to receive kindness, compassion, and empathy.
Yet these are also being equated with weakness. Look at the leaders recently elected who regularly shit on kindness, compassion, and empathy — and still win elections.
Kindness, compassion, and empathy are not weak. The truth is that it’s not weak to ask for help and give or receive kindness, compassion, or empathy, in any way.
Everyone needs help from time to time
Nobody can live their entire life without receiving help along the way. Nobody.
That’s partially because the human experience involves interaction and cooperation between people. It’s partially because we are social creatures…
