Tag: you matter

amtep:

poetessinthepit:

I’ll never be able to live my life because I can’t perform basic tasks. It’s as simple as that. Why do I keep going?

You mean you’ll never live independently. But no-one does. Human life is a web of dependence, obligation and care. You’ll be there for others, others will be there for you.

The tasks that you call “basic” because other people seem to do them so easily, well, some people struggle with those. It’s not just you. Needing help with them doesn’t make you lesser, it just means you need support that makes sense to you. Which is what everyone needs.

Some people are lucky, they won the social lottery and get what they need without asking. It looks like they don’t need support but the reality is that they already have it. Some have to ask, demand, stamp their feet. Some don’t get it at all. They are shamed for “needing” but the reality is that the shame belongs to the society that can’t support all its members.

You have value, and you have unique value. There are things you do that you take for granted, either because you find them effortless or because they are so meaningful to you that you do them as a matter of course. People around you look on in wonder and you don’t even notice.

Why do you keep going? Sometimes, maybe even just once in your life, you’ll answer that question for someone else. And maybe then you’ll have your answer too.