Learning to ask for help
After 43 years, I’ve finally done it.
43 years of defining strength as stoicism.
Integrity as independence.
Freedom as fortitude.
Self-determination as defiance.
Now I realise the opposite is true.
That courage is found in community.
Resilience in relationships.
Inner strength in inter-dependence.
I was 43 last Wednesday.
And finally
after four and a bit decades
I’ve learned the hard way how to ask for help.