Burden Bearer

I keep wondering what the alternative would've been if I hadn't decided to just call Bekky.

Bekky is a very carefree, jovial, loving and caring soul. She's that one friend you could count on to be there anytime anyday.

I gave her a call and she sounded not her usual self of being all upbeat and bubbly. Not much was said but I decided to go to her house.

Bekky didn't look the part and since my visit caught her unawares, I found her living like a shadow. 

She could only sleep with the help of drugs

She had other drugs for anxiety, headaches and the likes...

For the past two to three months, she somehow found herself being the sounding board for so many persons around her.

One friend lost the spouse

Another was downsized

Another was duped

The other failed in her professional exam

One was into fish farming but for some reasons she lost a great majority of her fish.

How about the one who just suffered her 5th miscarriage.

Bekky kept soaking it in, and by the time you know it, she began to act out the sadness and burdens all these people were offloading on her.

Well, thankfully we didn't loose Bekky and we were able to get her into therapy.

You're not a superhero

People keep dumping their problems on you

You're giving comfort, cash, healing words, helping hands, fighting their problems with them, the list is inexhaustible.

Do you ever consider that you don't detoxify?

Take care of yourself!

You can't help everybody

You can't save everybody

Find a way to unburden.

You can only do your best to the extent to which you can!.