When everyone around you seems to need something, how do you stay on task and just take care of yourself? I’m not talking about needing a favor or somebody needing a shoulder to cry on. I’m talking about money. Because it seems like everybody needs money.
Somebody needs help with a bill. Somebody needs a little extra. Somebody has an unexpected expense. Somebody needs this or that. And while I genuinely wish I could help everybody, there is one small problem: I don’t have money for everybody.
I’m trying to make responsible decisions with what I have. I have my own bills, my own plans and my own future to think about. I can’t keep reaching into my pocket every time someone else comes up short.
And honestly, that’s hard to say sometimes. When you love people, you want to help. You don’t want to be the person who says, “Sorry, I can’t.” But at some point, you have to realize that helping everyone else financially can leave you needing help yourself. I am not a bank. I don’t have a vault in the backyard. There isn’t a money tree growing behind the shed that I forgot to mention.
So I’m learning that it’s okay to say, “I can’t.” Not because I don’t care or because I don’t want good things for you. I simply have to take care of my own household, too. Because if I give away everything I have trying to help everybody else, who’s going to help me? Everyone I know is broke! lol.
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