I've been listening to Wayne Dyer and he tells the story of some students with special equipment to be able to see inside an egg. And before hatching the little chicks have to struggle so so hard to crack the shell of that egg, so sometimes the students would take pity on them and make a little crack in the shell to help them out. But whenever they did, the chick always died. So in some way the struggle is necessary for the chick to gain the chick to survive outside of the egg.
I have a tendency to want to meddle and help people. I have one friend who is always on the verge of financial collapse and I have loaned and given him money many times, and it has been 7 years and he is no closer to escaping this situation. Next time I will try to remind myself of those chicks. Maybe people have to find the inner strength to escape their own difficulties and by helping them we are just dooming them to repeat the cycle.
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