It is impossible to help someone who doesn't want it
It is impossible to help someone who doesn't think they need or doesn't want help. It can be a frustrating thing if you love them, because most of us can't see past our own issues. Our issues, and outlook because of them, traps us in a world view that we cannot easily see through. It usually takes someone else who we have a relationship with to say something that shatters the barriers we have constructed. It shatters through the lens through which we look at the world. But most of us are under the extremely destructive and insulating belief that we can take care of ourselves. We believe we are self sufficient. Reaching out is a sign of weakness. But the truth is the opposite. We are relational creatures. We need others and reaching out is a sign of strength, and it enables those people who are sitting on the fringes of our lives to stop being silent and provide help. Because a broken and cont...