All You Have To Do Is Ask

All you have to do is ask. Sometimes it’s hard, it hurts your pride, or you’re simply stubborn. For some people it takes a lot to ask for help, I know sometimes I have my moments. However, it’s called help for a reason, it’s meant you lift you up out or your struggle so you can push forward. I know I have had my fair share of asking for help, as well as receiving it.

It just so happens that I have one of the most stubborn people there is as my friend, so trying to help her is like pulling teeth. Although there was one time when she needed my help, and actually managed to ask for it. She needed help finding her wallet she had lost while we were at the mall. We had spent the day Christmas shopping at the Maine Mall and had been in many stores. It wasn’t until Julia was about to walk up to the cash registers that we had discovered she set her wallet down and forgot to pick it up again. It was a slight bit of frantic panic. I remembered that she had set her wallet down in JCPenny and figured she must’ve forgot to pick it up. I rushed casually to all the spots we had shopped and she checked other possible spots. Very soon, I found her wallet completely untouched where she had misplaced it, sitting on a stack of nike sweatshirts. It was a huge rush of relief I was able to help her find her wallet and untouched even.

It isn’t extremely often that I ask for Julia’s help, but I needed Julia for something that I could only ask her for. I asked her to help me by lying for me; if anyone asked, Julia would tell everyone a lie I made up. I had decided to do something that I knew my parents wouldn’t be fond of even though it wasn’t bad at all. She told her parents the story so if our parents happened to talk, as they sometimes do in passing, they would think the same thing that my parents thought and the lie would never catch up to me. I couldn’t have done it without her help, she helped to validate my story and kept it a secret.

Sometimes helping friends may not be in the biggest of ways, however, sometimes it means more than what one would think. We both helped each other in different ways, but still equally helpful to the other. It doesn’t matter the task, it’s okay to ask for help.