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Lesson Learned Aug 17, 2008 8:37 pm
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For over two years, I have been trying to tell myself I am the person who can handle anything life throws my way. For the most part that has always been true, at least until today.

I hate asking for help because I've always been the strong one. Funny, but life had different plans for me. For some time now I have been trying to learn how to do it all. Maintain all the house maintenance, the yard, the fence repairs, and anything else that needed to be done after my divorce. I tried to do all this by myself because I was too embarassed to say, I need some help.

Well, today, after a few stitches, an embarassing visit to the ER, I learned that there are things I will have to learn to ask for help. While it seems foreign to me, I am sure I can't afford to get stitches all the time, and well, it is embarassing to tell the person in triage that the reason you are there is because you were trying to use a weedeater that was too heavy and that it cut your pants and dug into your leg.

I guess I didn't realize the hardest lesson learned in surviving a divorce was the one where you have to learn to depend on others for things that were once done by someone else. I have no idea if it is because I thought it would make me look weak to ask for help, or if it was a I can do it all mentality. Either way, it was a costly lesson in more ways than one.

I guess today was another way life teaches me, I can't do it all, even if I think it is possible. That there are times where you really do have to ask someone else for help.

Wonder which is worse, believing you can do it all yourself for fear of being weak, or if not asking for help and getting to pay a visit to the local medical facility and have a doctor look at you in disbelief?

I guess we all learn lessons differently, to bad they include stitches sometimes. Today I learned that I can't do it all and, well sometimes you have to ask for help whether you want to or not.
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