Help Out

I Need Your Help

If someone texts, you and says I need your help what do you do? Do you say yes, or do you ignore the text? I’m guessing it depends on who the text is from and what they want you to do. 

Is it a friend who only needs a sit down chat? Is it your workplace calling you in because they are extremely busy? It depends, doesn't it? You really would like to ignore the work call. No, you don’t want to come in, no you are busy yourself. What gets you will be your work ethic. If it’s like mine, you will go in when they ask. Do you want to? No. Especially since the day was supposed to be your day off in the first place. 

Just Do It

In the end you let out a sigh and text back and say you will be there. What else is there to do? What is the alternative? Feeling as if you let everyone down. Because really what were you doing at the exact moment you got the text? Were you on your phone? Reading a great book? Or simply just being. Deep breaths, eventually the night is over you are back home, and everything is forgotten. Well maybe not forgotten. Because really who forgets the dreaded phone message, interrupting their day. Causing chaos in an already cluttered mind. Focus and get through it. Tell yourself you can do it. It’s only five or six hours. Keep it replaying through your head. 

Blessed Are the Ones We Ignore

Ignoring such a message is what many people would do. Unfortunately, I’m not many people. I, myself would feel terrible like I was letting the entire world down if I didn’t respond and go into work. How do you show up the next day when you don’t respond to a text from the night before? Embarrassed, trying desperately to come up with excuses because the text was left unanswered. No rhythm, no reason is good enough. You are the spoiler, the one who doesn’t care enough about her co-workers to help them out. How shameful, how unamerican. Raised to do your duty no matter how much you don’t want to, is what I do. It’s all about ethics, self-respect, and morals. Some of us have them and some do not. To walk away from such a circumstance unscathed is a person who cares nothing about others. A narcissistic windbag. A shadowless person who cares only about what’s good for themselves. If somehow, they would benefit from helping out, they would pitch in and help. If nothing is in it for them, they will not.

It's Me

Helping out is what I do. Helping out is who I am. What matters most is the fact that you help. Even when deep down in your brain and body you don’t want to. Once you get to the place you are helping out at it isn’t as bad as you thought it would be. Time flies, you are once again back home. You did it, you made it through. You persevered and you survived. 

Perhaps next time you should put your phone on silent. Stay busy around the house. You won’t see that text or phone call until it’s too late. You won’t have to lie about why you didn’t come in early to assist. Just say, oh I didn’t see your phone call until it was too late. Not being on your phone 24/7 has its perks.

Or you can just suck it up, go into work and help out. 

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It’s your choice, make it a good one.