Feeling Helpless.... Random Thought #3

Hey there, llamas!

Bit of a depressing (reeeeaaalllllllyyyyyy bad pun if you read on) random thought today...

What do you do when a friend is feeling low, but they don't want your help?  And I don't mean a little upset... I mean full on low.  What do you do?  How can you help?

I don't often feel helpless, but when I do, I don't like it.  I try to rectify the feeling as much as possible, as quickly as possible.  But it doesn't seem to be happening this time.  Because this time, it involves someone else, a friend.  Not someone I can offend if I need to in order to forget the feeling of helplessness, not a complete stranger, but a friend.  So.  I repeat, what do you do when a friend is in a really dark place, but doesn't want your help?  Doesn't think they need it?  What do you do?  How can you help?

And on a more personal level, how can you help yourself?  How do you stop from sliding into that dark place with them?  How do you keep the big, jagged, black rock from growing and crushing you?  The huge, poisonous, black cloud from choking you?  Because I've been there, and I don't want to go back.  Ever.

So.  Once again, I repeat, what do you do?  How can you help?

This friend of mine doesn't want help.  But I'm worried.  They don't realise how much I understand.  They don't realise what it can do to them.  What that darkness can do if they let it get too far.  But they won't listen.  And it's up to them.  After all, how can you help someone who doesn't want to be helped?

I just wish that they could understand.  But they don't.  And I know they're stubborn enough not to.

If you're reading this, I love you.  Thought you might need to hear that.

Shenaya xx