I have come across a recent thought, and the people of the Off Topic section hate my thoughts often so, I have decided to make here the base of my opoperations. Now I want to ask, who is gonna help you? If you end up being abused. Punched in the jaw until your bruise breaks open, choked around the neck until it is red, punched in the chest until your chest matches your jaw but in a wider scale. Who's gonna help you? How about when you are hurt inside but play the unhurt one? Who's gonna help you? What about when your life has gotten to horrible times, your boss is threatening you about your job, and you are hardly making enough to go on. Who's gonna help you? How about when you pick up that blade and run it across your skin, just to see that scarlet liquid run down your arm, to feel human in a distorted way. Who's gonna help you? When your day goes from bad to hell compacted into a cell, who's gonna help you? There are many things to look at, but the question I wanna ask tonight, is who's gonna help you? Who will stop your chest from hurting that day? Who will help you get revenge on the person who left you bruised? Who will make it so your life is at least a bit better?
The only person that can help you is yourself. If you aren't willing to help yourself, no one else is going to be able to.
There are alot who have heard that saying so much. You know, people have helped themselves as much as they can, I mean, heck, there are many who have fought tooth and nail to beat down their depression. People have fought hard and long, but what about when they can no longer fight, what if they need someone to fight for them because their weary bones cannot battle it anymore. People have heard "only you can help yourself" so much, but the problem is, is that those words seem to be an excuse to avoid helping someone. I personally think that is what that means, that people are avoiding helping because they clearly want to steer clear of a person in need of help from the external part of them, rather than internally. A person can battle, but they have limits and needs that have to be tended to. A person who battles alone is also more likely to lose than a person battling with others. In my own opinion I think that people say that to avoid supporting the ongoing battle inside someone. The force that drives them to pick up that blade, rope, gun, to climb that building, the person is battling those urges, but alone the person would fall, because people can be overcome by feeling alone if they don't hear the words that can fight back those devastating urges. If someone is scared to tell the truth about their bruises on their body, that person is truly being defeated by their own battle to try and say something. If someone picks up that blade to see the scarlet liquid run down their arm, that battle is a losing battle alone, sometimes counselling can work, or make it worse. Who knows just when and where somebody will do something because they are losing their battle. I think that if you cannot help yourself win that battle, someone else should help you battle further, someone else should have your back, not to stab, but to watch and support. So I will ask once again, who's gonna help you win one of your unbeatable battles?
If you don't learn how to help yourself, however, you will grow too dependent on that other person. What if that person leaves your life? You are now on your own with no idea on how to handle it. I speak from personal experience when I say that.
The help of others can only reach so far into the comforts of your own mind. Even in the arms of a lover, are you not alone in your own skin? What you chose as your comfort is your own business. If it is the lies of "helpful" humans which sooth your soul, drown yourself in it if you wish.