Baby birds peep and open wide their enormous mouths, calling to their parents to bring more, more. That might sound greedy, but evolution has designed baby birds with wide mouths and shrill voices to enhance their survival. Sometimes you just have to be really clear about what you need.
When has it helped you to ask in no uncertain terms for what you needed?
Physical ability and endurance begin to wane as others (and I) age. This has become a revelation to me since I have fortunately been active for most of my life. There are two illustrations of how I have handled problems in the past: one, when having fallen on the sidewalk downtown, my system was shocked and I was hesitant to move. I started calling HELP in a very loud voice and at last someone came by and then others, all of whom assisted me in getting up. All were kind and I considered that my asking for help was better than trying to put myself at more risk. This I now am calling “interdependence” since there are other times when I have helped others. As a result of this experience, I do not hesitate to ask for someone’s arm to hold onto firmly when I see that I may have trouble stepping up or down at a walkway. Better, I say, to solve a potential problem than to go ahead and have one that could make the situation worse.