O.M.G. I’m turning 30

For women, we can easily be led astray from our own personal and professional objectives with just the onset of one thing to show up in our lives; a man. It is our nature to care for, nurture, and show feelings towards someone we care about; to our demise, we will nearly go to the ends of the Earth to assist and help in any way an adult male, or partner to which shows signs of needing assistance whether it be physically, mentally, or financially. Have you ever asked yourself this question, “From out of all the people in their lives, your partner has chosen you. You are the one they have chosen to help them carrying their life’s burdens on their backs. You; whom they just met, yet feel a strange “connection” to you.  He picked you; a single mother who has to struggle to raise her children on your own because their father is too busy seeing what life has to offer. You; who is a student, trying to pay your way through college because your family did not have a college saving account set aside for you. Maybe it’s you; whose worked all of your life only to finally reach the glass ceiling of the corporate world only to find out it’s a club of whose scratching whose backs for a position they are less than qualified to fill.  Or maybe it’s you; who faithfully worked years for a company only to be laid off or fired because the company decided it wanted to “restructure” themselves and your life.  Who is there when we help? Most of us rarely ask for help unless it is the absolute last option.

I once ran across an ad on Craigslist from a woman who did not give her name, yet the ad went on to this effect:

Help. Single mother of two young children in need of clothing for my 18 month old son and four year old daughter.  I am on disability and cannot afford to pay for clothing.  Please contact me by email. Any help would be appreciated.

 As I read this article, my heart went out to this woman so much that it moved me to tears. Here is a woman who was either too proud to ask for assistance from her family or the father of her children as well as receive anymore social program benefit.  She could have easily went to the Salvation Army or some other nonprofit organization to get much needed clothes for her children.  Maybe she has already done so, she just has reached their limit to assist her any further this year. Maybe she did ask for help from her friends and family, they just weren’t able to provide her with assistance anymore. Maybe; Maybe…….

 As I got up after reading this article, I began to gather clothing for this woman. I did not know her, nor did I know her address.  I only knew I had been in the same similar situation where my children and I needed clothing and I was unable to provide it because I took the money I used for our wellbeing and gave it to someone who came to me with the burden of a lifetime for me to help them carry. 

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