Freewrite prompt: As Helpless As a Baby

Sometimes in life, I guess we will encounter moments when we feel helpless and set back. It is easy to really sink in those moments feeling that we are mistreated or even unacknowledged.

I remember hearing a preaching that only humans are born as helpless babies who need care for the longest of time among all mammals. Most mammals could survive without the mother's care but not humans because we take time to learn crawling, standing and walking. But often, even when we are all grown to maturity, we may still feel helpless.

"I can't do anything about it." sounds like the most helpless statement I have heard my whole life. I am sure the emotions are real and the inability can be real too. We can and should process this emotions by crying out or screaming them out, not suppressing them because if we can do that, we actually pull ourselves out of our victim mentality. After the process of mourning, grieving and crying, we somehow obtain strength out of nowhere, do you feel that?

Feeling helpless and being a victim are two different mentality. Feeling helpless is a temporary state when we feel we are out of control of circumstance in life (which we are anyway) while being a victim can be destroying our lives forever if we were to be drowned in it, thinking that everyone else owe us something. A victim surrenders his or her power over his or her life and circumstances while a helpless person may still be able to step out to seek for help after realizing the limitation he or she has.

My own conclusion is it is okay to be helpless, it is okay to cry for help especially with God, but being a victim will hinder myself from reaching my potentials and discovering the many possibilities in life. No one can force me to surrender my power, only I can. You and I are that powerful. Even a newborn baby can decide to drink milk or not, to be happy or not.

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Freewrite is a prompt writing initiated by @mariannewest and @improv to write a free-flow post without correcting or editing. I checked out her post to really get what it is before I jumped on the bandwagon. Basically, there is no right or wrong, just let the mind and fingers do their work, to find our creative self and let it come out of us.

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