RE: Giving Too Much Of Myself | Finding Balance In An Unbalanced World
To help, you have to have something to help with; skills, time, strength, ideas, money... and it takes personal investment and care of the self to maintain the position. If spread too thinly, it is impossible to maintain personal resources adequately to support others. eventually there is burnout and instead of helping, one joins the growing queue of those who need help.
Much like the distribution of active and engaged users with resources on Steem, the distribution of those with the energy to support the growing masses is small. Everyone needs to evaluate their place in life and if it is one of service to others, they have to make sure they first can build and care for the resources required to do so. This is the long game, help one now or many more over time.
There is also the factor that often to help oneself, the pain has to be felt deeply enough. If one becomes a reliable shoulder of support, some may never stand on their own two feet, never suffer quite enough to dig deep to understand why. A life of dependency.
The work of a lifetime is rarely acknowledged, let alone rewarded publicly.
You are 100% correct, and our course spoken in your usual poetic way 🤗
We have to actually have something, to be able to give it. We have to plan for the future to help more overtime, rather than a couple short term.. and of course need to make sure we are around and able to help more in the future.
Your words at SF really helped me see that.. that I needed to not give all of myself and everything I have away so quickly, rather build it up so I can help more.. thanks for that. I’m working on finding a balance for it all.
Thank you for you exceptional comment, your friendship and your support.. it means more than you know ❤️
Also, I totally read your stuff in your voice now.. makes me smile 😊
You are always welcome.
I think that we are slowly getting to a point where there is a solid core of people who are willing to work toward something larger together. While build ourselves, we can increasingly support each other.
That must be annoying