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04-24-2019, 08:23 AM
The Dragon finds that last line in @Alone post, "Alone would want to know from jman197 anything that would be helpful to seeing him to felling better." especially helpful - interesting.
If we have a leaky roof people don't tell us to climb on the roof to fix it, they offer suggestions about who to have come patch it. When we need surgery for appendicitis, for example, we don't tell ourselves that "we can do this, we don't need no stinking help" we go find a doctor (or at least the Dragon hopes we do.) So why, when it comes to emotional problems are we told to "tough it out"??
By asking what we can do that would be helpful, Alone shows a lot of concern - does anyone know better than we what it is *we* need?
If we have a leaky roof people don't tell us to climb on the roof to fix it, they offer suggestions about who to have come patch it. When we need surgery for appendicitis, for example, we don't tell ourselves that "we can do this, we don't need no stinking help" we go find a doctor (or at least the Dragon hopes we do.) So why, when it comes to emotional problems are we told to "tough it out"??
By asking what we can do that would be helpful, Alone shows a lot of concern - does anyone know better than we what it is *we* need?
We live by each other and for each other. Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.
-- Helen Keller
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