Asking for help is never a weakness

Good day, amazing people of Hive Blockchain. Welcome back to my blog. It is another edition in the #hiveghana community. I am so delighted to participate in this week's prompt help.

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If there is something I'm afraid of, it is asking people for help and not receiving it. I always have this fear in me: what if I ask for help and the person declines? I always feel hurt whenever my request for help is declined. I am this kind of person that doesn’t know how to handle rejection. That is the main reason why I always keep my problem to myself.

In most cases, if someone helps you out, he or she will announce to the whole world that they are the one that helped you out. It is the main reason why the majority of the people would rather die than ask people for help. Gone are the days when they say a problem shared is a problem half solved. To avoid seeing the finish, I try my best to handle my problem myself without seeking help. In those days people got help more easily than now.

Due to fear of rejection, I don’t open up to people to tell them what I am passing through or my problem, but I was in a situation that I didn’t know what to do about. What was running through my mind was to open up and ask people for help.

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In the year 2021 my dad was hospitalised. I spent all my money; still, the hospital was demanding more money from me. At this point I was so confused I didn’t know what to do. I needed help, but I was afraid to ask for one because I can’t take no as an answer.

I always think I can do it all myself; at a point, the weight was too much on my shoulders. I had to summon courage and reach out to a friend and tell my friend what I had been passing through. He was mad at me for letting him know, and I had been passing through all this by myself. Immediately he went with me to the hospital, and he cleared all the debt and also gave me some cash to get things for my dad.

He made me have a change in perspective; he made me realise I should ask first. Even if I get no as an answer, it is better than keeping silent. I realise that asking for help is not a sign of weakness, but it only takes courage to reach out for help. There is this popular saying: A close mouth is a close destiny. It is better you speak up than die in silence. If I didn't reach out to a friend, who knows what could have happened to my dad? Most times it is good to share our problem; who knows, we might get help?

This is my entry on the weekly prompts of #hiveghana prompt #week-105 topic help.

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