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hagen terschüren 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Me: *at IKEA, struggling to load several large, heavy boxes in my van*
Fellow shopper: "Do you need a hand?"
Me: "No thank you. I think I can manage it."
Fellow shopper: "Oh, I didn't doubt you could manage it. I just thought if you had help it would
be easier."
Me: "Oh yes. It would be easier. Thank you so much." *humbly accepts help and internalizes this deep, unexpected philosophical lesson

Look, this post has been wildly more popular than I thought it deserved, apparently at least in part because "don't burden others; be
independent" is far more ingrained in people than I realized. So here's the thing: society works when people help each other. Helping others
gives people a chance to know each other, and gives them an investment in the people they help. Helping creates bonds. People enjoy helping,
and you are doing a good by letting them help you if they so wish.
Offer help; accept help. You will be a part of creating a helping culture. Which, incidentally, weakens capitalism and the fractionation between
people that benefits those who would use us.

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