I can’t recall if I was embarrassed. I do remember thinking that I should be embarrassed, but the only thing on my naïve, …show more content…
A person who would suffer, rather than ask a friend for help, and that was a problem. It has actually been a problem of mine until rather recently. I discovered that I love helping people. It makes me feel good to help someone, because I’d like to think that if I needed help, someone would help me. And I think that’s when I realized that I needed to let go of my hubris. Escape from the thing that was chaining me and embrace who I am. I realized that needing help is not something to feel shameful about, because everybody needs help. And though I’m not shouting my background circumstances to rooftop, I will no longer be ashamed of where I come