Favors

I recently was approached by a friend who needed some help after recently having surgery. She has many friends in this apartment complex, but it seems not many were able to help her out when she needed it. There could be any number of reasons, but regardless in her mind they were letting her down. She called me and I offered to help, and this started me thinking of favors.

Your life is filled with choices. When you choose not to help someone, you may be letting them down. When you choose to help this is obviously a good thing. But in doing so, you could be sacrificing something else, or even letting someone else down. This is common sense: you're only one person, right? But people sometimes overlook that the person they are letting down may be themselves. Occasionally in our over eager attempt to be a good person, be liked, or receive a favorable impression we may forget about others that are more familiar to us; perhaps our family, our friends, our ourselves. Its not that you should avoid helping people, its that you should avoid neglecting yourself and those close to you in the process.