The Guardian
You may have learned that someone has to be the strong one and that someone is you, that needing people is weakness, and that even when help is offered outright, the safer response is to wave it off. It might start with one thing, handed over and not checked on, or a bag you let someone carry without the reflex to even it out. Humans are the most interdependent species alive, and the people who ask for the least are usually the ones who need it most. Being strong for everyone isn't a personality. It's a role you were given, and you're allowed to put it down.
Traditionally echoed in Atlas, holding the sky up because someone has to, and in Sedna of Inuit tradition, thrown from the boat by her own father, her fingers cut as she clung to its side, who sank to become the mother of the sea creatures her people depend on.
Who would you be if you didn't have to be the strong one today, and what do you do with help the moment it's offered?
- Area of life
- Health, the body and daily life
- Systems behind it
- Capitalist, performance culture, Class
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