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Help Others Help Themselves

I've realized that you really can't help other's, that there's no way to do that. This is not misanthrope, or angst, you should not mistake it for such. One person or being cannot control another person or being. Person A may, however, sit down with Person B and have a long talk about the fact that they make their own decisions and they control their lives because they control how they react to everything that happens to them. With person B seeing this, Person A has helped Person B to help themselves and to continue helping themselves. Hopefully. In a nutshell, this is the "change comes from within" idea.

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Faish : Rice Eater Added on January 16, 2006
by Faish