How can you help a friend even if you don’t feel totally able?

There is no need to feel guilty if you cannot help a friend through any problems. Everyone has their own abilities and limitations, and it is essential to do the best you can.

Either way, there are a few things you can do to help your friend even if you don’t feel fully prepared:

• Be honest: If you don’t know how to help your friend, say it openly. He/she will appreciate your honesty.

• Offer your support: Even if you don’t know how to solve your friend’s problems, you can still offer your support and encouragement.

• Encourage your friend to seek help: If they need professional help, encourage them to seek psychological or legal support.

• Give advice only when asked: Try understanding your friend’s point of view and avoid judging or giving unsolicited advice.

• Be There: Show your friends you can listen to and support them.

• Take care of yourself: Make sure you take care of yourself and ask for help if you need support.

Remember, the support and love of friends are critical to someone going through family problems, and your help can make all the difference, even if sometimes you don’t feel completely prepared.

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The Spirit

Many times, I tried to develop ideas in order to accomplish some kind of task, but I failed. Many times, I have followed my own inner feeling and I have built a lot of remarkable things.

Because no matter how much you desire a thing or what you’re prepared for if the spirit is not part of the process, you’re working on the void and even though formally it appears that you’re reaching great goals, you’re actually wasting your and others’ time.

Time is precious and if you don’t spice up it with your inner spirit, it will be lost in the flow of universe and space-time. But if you discover inside yourself your inner voice and act accordingly at it your flowing in the universe will have much more meaning, you will be a better person, you will be more prone to help those who need and you will be more yourself and assertive.

But what’s the spirit? What’s your inner voice? It’s very difficult to answer this question. We could say that spirit always changes but at the same time it remains the same. We could say that it lets us love ourselves more and love others more.

“We have no power but the power to change the world”