Who Do We Run To?

A random quote got me to thinking:

Sometimes, it kinda sucks to be the one everyone runs to with their problems.

And mind you, I was talking to a friend about how a classmate always gets approached by others who need help with Maths T. Me included.

Still, thinking it through, it does mean a lot.

Many are there times we run to someone to complain and gripe and just pour out our stress building inside us and to that someone so he/she can dispense some advice. Well, it's good to have a friend like that around.

But there can be times when more friends come to you and just dump all their emotional baggage, hoping you'd be the one to sort it out. Not them, YOU. And they do it over and over again. An endless cycle.

And then how are you going to sort your own problems?

Sometimes, you need to consider the other party before you start dumping your emo problems. You'll never know when the other party actually has it far worse than you do.

I remember in the LTC, one of the facilitators had gone through something like that. She poured her problems out, hoping there would be a solution. But it turned out that her friend had a whole lot of problems too.

Be careful. As much as you can count of friends, they're still human.

Cheers.