Would you help an average person?
Article by Jennifer Underwood
Ive never been able to categorize myself in a potlitical sense of whether or not I care for people. If people cross my path, and I feel empathy for them, they get help in some way. I have never been able to give money financially, but have always imagined myself at a later point in my life, being a philanthropist but helping regular people, struggling with their lives.I bring this to your attention because I am curious as to how we see those around us. Society makes us bitter about relationships, and the world, and we walk around mumbling to ourselves that its "every man for himself". Yet, when a disaster happens, like the Tsunami in Japan, we open our wallets and shell out money to help them, because the story is so terribly sad.When 911 happened, I went to a candlelight vigil. I started to cry when this man asked me what I felt about the event. I said that I was touched that the world seemed to come together to help us.Strangers have helped me sometimes. I went to the mind body spirit expo when I lived in Portland in 2006. Cherry Divine was speaking, but it was more like a show one afternoon. It was very spiritual and she zeroed in on me personally for reasons I dont understand. She said a bunch of very powerful things, inspiring about not sabotaging myself. I couldnt remember much, because I was embarassed. I started to sob and was humiliated when people got up to leave at the end. Noone looked down on me, or made fun of me. One person handed me a kleenex, and then some woman, a friend of the speaker, came by and hugged me and told me that I was letting go of something I didnt need anymore, and crying was okay. I never forgot about kind she was.In 2005, backing up a little bit, I lived in Utah with a friend at the time. I wasn't mormon, but realized time and again how nice they were. July 4th I was sitting watching the fireworks cold. It had been so hot all day, and all of a sudden I was very cold. My friend didnt have a jacket and I was sitting there curled up. A man from a family nearby, came! , and pu t a blanket on my shoulders. I told him thank you, almost crying at his sincerity.It wasnt the first time I was shocked at how nice Mormons were. My friend was in the hospital that year earlier, for a rare throat condition. She told the doctor she could not afford it and was very panicked. He only charged her a couple hundred dollars in the end, for a few days stay in a hospital that would have caused five thousand dollars. You dont see that sort of thing every day.Then in Christmas of 2006, I frequented this forum and somehow felt inspired to share a story. I could not afford a Christmas tree at the time and felt depressed about it. I was determined to make it work, so I went in my beautiful Oregon backyard, and found the storm had blew down this enormous branch that looked like half a tree. So I took it in, and put lights all over it and was thrilled to death.As i told this story online, a man wrote me and said he had a six foot faux christmas tree, do I want it? I said yes, and he shipped it out thousands of miles. Turned out to the biggest tree I had ever seen, very high quality.
Even though it is not our responsiblity to help others, we do it anyway, and for those who do, they dont realize how much their help is remembered forever by those who touched their lives.
Why am I telling you all of this? Because due to horrendous life circumstances, and being at the end of my rope, I need help from my fellow man, and I am reaching out to people, even though it is hard, and embarassing, because i need help again, this time with a much bigger problem.If you visit my site, A Thousand Words, and read the Photographers Story link, you will see what I am talking about.Why should you help me? Because im sincere, and straightforward. I have big plans that will give me a chance at a future, where I truly feel I have nothing without help from others. I have always prided myself in the past, for being strong and not getting myself in bad situations, but as the years passed that started to go out the windo! w. I sta rted to find myself making decisions that would affect my whole life. I never had many positive options available to me, and you could say I have been often, on the unlucky list of life. I belive in making my own luck however, and want to get my life back.What have I done to help others?Well, in 2006 I was attuned to Reiki levels one and two. what the heck is Reiki? its a healing energy, holistic along the same lines as Acupuncture, and other healing modalities. After I was attuned, I started to feel pain and empathy more easily for people. When the oil spill happened, I immediately felt the urge to send reiki to the situation. I have sent reiki countless times to people I dont know personally, to help their situations. It doesnt work the same on me, thats how the story always goes huh? I sacrificed the best years of my life to help get close to people, to 'rescue' them. i tried to save an alcholic, befriended someone who had severe child abuse and needed someone to talk to and love them. I also cared for and helped my friend, who suffered from gender dysphoria to come out to her family.I have done reiki on so many animals, I cant even come up with a number at this point.I long to do Reiki as a career, but cant get the finances to do it. The lliving siutation in which I live with my baptist parents, they will never let me have a career like that, and take care of me at the same time.
So if you have a heart, and want to help a poor soul, which I am sad to say is me, then please visit my site and make a donation. I want to give some money to the ASPCA, because they know also what suffering is like. I have tried advertising in some other places, but so far no luck yet. Its only been a few days, and I am trying to reach as many people as I can. I have choked myself up thinking 'Please show me universe that their are people out there willing to help, and restore any doubts I have about humanity'.Thank you for reading. Here is the link to my site: http://picathousandwords.weebly.com
About the AuthorA freelance photographer and currently lives in North Carolina.
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