Recently an elderly couple, who didn’t have their children around, were struggling with technology. They came to me, and I was happy to help. It was no big deal for me, but it was for them because their whole lives depended on it. Their limited knowledge exasperated them, and they kept making a lot of mistakes—mistakes that could have eventually cost them a lot of money.
The experience got me thinking. They were lucky to have someone help this time. But what about the other times when no one is around? What about those who aren’t fortunate to have any assistance at all?
It’s a sad truth that every person on Earth is responsible for their own problems. They always say that it’s okay to ask for help, but so many can’t afford to. There are introverts and self-sufficient people who generally won’t ask anyone for help, even when they are on their deathbeds. You know, it’s always been in their nature to be self-reliant. Why go out of their way to do something that feels so unnatural to them?
Some people are loners by choice. They don’t have anyone around to ask for help. Others are not good at socializing and choose to live inside a bubble. I mean, these are all ways of existing, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Any lifestyle is a choice. You can’t consider any state of subsistence to be wrong—it’s just a style.
If you think about it, family plays a vital role in anyone’s basic livelihood. They nurture and shape you, helping you become capable. Can’t even begin to imagine, what it’s like for those without a family—they are at the mercy of the system they were born into. Orphans, sadly, are often products of such circumstances. How difficult it must be for the socially isolated!
When you have someone who cares about you, you unconsciously put your trust in them, almost as if acknowledging that everything will be fine because of their presence alone. But not everyone is blessed to have someone around. In a world that gets savvier with the advent of tech, how will the orthodox and conventional survive?
With parents, you know, as they age, children usually take care of them because there are so many things parents can no longer do due to age. It’s also the children’s way of expressing gratitude and recognizing their parents as the primal cause of their existence. After all, everything they have learned stems from the foundation their parents provided during childhood.
Sadly, not everyone shares that notion. People drift away, assuming their parents are fine and will always be, regardless of all the chaos the modern world brings. It’s getting scarier with every tick of the clock.
I can’t imagine the pain of those whose children aren’t around. What about those who have lost their partners and are struggling to cope on their own? The mute suffer the tragedy of being unable to express their needs, while the blind and the deaf keep talking.
Independence is such a myth. Everyone needs someone to exist. That’s the whole point of being born on Earth. If it weren’t, there would have been just one Adam, one person struggling alone toward the end—not billions of souls navigating life together.
I mean, take a tree, for instance. It needs soil, water, and sunlight to grow. It can’t exist on its own. So how do we expect to live without the elements that help us grow?
In the end, we all need help. It’s impossible to exist entirely on our own. Even if people aren’t vocal about their needs, and may never ask for help, they’ll still always need it. And if there is no one around to help, they will still need some form of cosmic intervention to comfortably reach the finish line.