The Difference Between Dependence on Others and Helping One Another
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Is your heart bound by an idea like “relying on others is shameful”?
Adults who think that way may have been praised by the adults around them in childhood as independent kids who needed little looking after.
But once you’re an adult, it doesn’t work that way.
Because in childhood, even if you didn’t say “help,” if you looked truly troubled, the adults around you would step in and help.
But once you’re an adult, if you don’t say “help,” no one lends a hand.
As a result, how many people push themselves too hard and break their hearts.
If you’re holding on to that kind of pride, try gently letting it go.
“The habit of thought of being addicted to dependence on others” and “the spirit of helping one another” are fundamentally different.
Think about why so many people are living on the one star called Earth.
It’s so that everyone can help one another, bring together each person’s strengths, and all build a better world together, right?
Look back at Earth’s history.
It was from losing sight of even that obvious principle of life that stubborn contests of pride began, which eventually turned into a competitive mindset, and people fell into the pitfall of oppositional ideas, trying to be above others and to hold others down beneath them, right?
Now is the very age to remember what Earth’s humanity exists for.
And let’s also keep asking ourselves the following until we find the real answers:
What were we born for?
What should we do while we live in this world?
How should we die?
If you live based on that kind of philosophical searching, you can easily let go of needless pride and live calmly, putting your whole heart into what you should do.
