Help
/noun/ the action of helping someone to do something.
Help is offered when help is needed. Agreeable? For instance, if I am thirsty right now, and request for water, you’ll help me by offering water right now. If you refuse me water today and come to my house tomorrow, bringing along water for me, it is not help.
Albus Dumbledore once said, “Help will always be offered at Hogwarts to those who need it”.
I want to touch an extremely sensitive topic today. I do not have a veracious term for it, but it is something that involves friends. For some people, it is really hard to share their problems with someone; it is even harder to ask for help. I would like to express my thoughts about this through a subjective way; using myself as the subject.
If I need help, I will not ask for it. I will not hold down the mask that hides my tear streaked face, my red eyes and strained muscles when I smile. I will not risk raising my hopes for being gifted with a shoulder on which I can rest my head. I might make myself available for everybody, help them when they’re low and always be the shoulder for someone, because I am like that, because I spread love rather than accepting it.
But when I do ask for help, it takes every ounce of strength within me to make that move.
How do you think it feels when I do not get help in return?
It hurts.
So, friends and strangers, if your friend is visibly asking for help, please do not leave them there. It can break their might, and if not taken seriously, it can break their soul.