Broken People

Everyone is broken to some degree. Some people are more broken than others, but we are all broken. As Plato said, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

However, you cannot fix broken people. You can only be there to help them fix themselves, but you cannot fix them without them. When you try to fix smebody who doesn’t want to be fixed, you hurt yourself. Sometimes, you hurt yourself to the breaking point. You can break yourself attempting to help someone else. You cannot save somebody who does not want to be saved.

And eventually, it gets to the point where you have to abandon ship in order to keep yourself from sinking. They will drown you if you let them. They will drag you down with their undertoe, deeper and deeper, as their own waves of suffering crashes over your head.

And they won’t care.