From the mind of critic: “If the answer to all our prayers is praying for all our answers, are we admnitting defeat before the game even starts? Are we letting go of any hope of getting where we wanna go, and think that if we’re to be successful in acheiving our dreams, goals and aspirations, we have to let somebody do it for us, instead of us doing it ourselves? Or are we letting go of the notion that we can do everything ourselves, and don’t need anybody’s help, specifically so others can help push us forward past where we would get alone, and in ways we didn’t expect? Admitting that we are not an island, and we need human contact to survive, is tough for some of us when we have always been told to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. How are we suppossed to ask for help, when we have always been told that if we want something done right we have to do it ourselves, and if we still can’t do it right, we’re a failure? On the same token, if we believe that asking for help is enough, because it opens us up to other possibilities and other perspectives, are we simply to lazy to do the action ourselves, and can just sit back and let others do the work.?The balance we must acheive in life to be an honest person can be hard, trial and error seems to be the only way to discover when we need help, and when we need to do things solo. To make it more difficul, there is no black and white, one size fits all template that fits all of us. We are all unique, and therefore have different defintions of what balance is in our lives. We simply need to remember, it’s never all one way or the other. If we never do anything, we are assured defeat. Answers to prayers can come from anywhere, we stay open to their possibilities by critically thinking about what’s in front of us, and it’s context” 🙂