Helping Hand

   People often struggle to change themselves, physically and emotionally. They ask their friends and peers to help with their issues at hand. The problem with this is that a peer or friend can only do so much. They can only help as much as you let them, because ultimately you have to want to help yourself. It is very easy to find a million excuses to continue what you know you should not, so why is it so hard to find the one ultimate excuse to break it. To give up what we use as crutches or what we are comfortable with is more difficult than anything most people go through. Will power, positive attitude, and learning to trust yourself to try and do the right thing are difficult tasks. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Life itself is a challenge, a challenge that we all live one day at a time. Some slay their inner demons, their weak areas of doubt and toss their crutches. Some do not. I am continually fighting some of mine, but will not give up hope that one day I will conquer them.