Czech Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Isn't that what your friends and family are there for? Not just to share the good times with, but also to be there for you and to take care of you when things aren't going so great?
I've always found it quite hard to ask for help, but I know that my loved ones are there for me whatever kind of mess I get my life into. I can't even begin to imagine how horrible it would be to feel that you were in so much trouble that you couldn't ask someone for help.
Especially when that someone was offering.
Last night I found out that someone I really care about is in some kind of trouble. I don't know what kind or how bad because he's trying to protect me by not telling me and it's making me worry more. I feel bad that he doesn't trust me enough to let me know what's going on, that he doesn't feel safe enough to talk to me and he doesn't realise that no matter what he's gone and got himself into it wont change how I feel about him as a person.
Graham Greene
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Maybe I'm just lucky, maybe not everyone has the trust in their friends enough to tell them their worst faults and mistakes. Perhaps I'm just fortunate enough to have friends who are honest and sensible enough to give me the right balance of comfort and good, unbiased advice.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
I'm sure that's true but it's a difficult one. It's easy to say that you're an optimist, it's easy to pretend that you don't worry about the future, it would be fantastic to be able to say that and really mean it.
But life never works quite like that.
If something is troubling you it's easy to lie awake in the wee small hours trying to guess what's going to happen, playing out all the possibilities in your head. Going over and over the facts, trying to find a way of fixing things without having to rely on someone else, without having to share your trouble with someone else.
I'm a big talker, I talk to my friends about anything and everything. It makes it easier, just knowing that someone else is there. But how do you show someone that never talks just how much difference it can make?
Dinah Shore
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
I suppose I just have to wait.
