A friend contacted me about one of our mutual friends. She had been posting on social media how she was depressed and struggling to pay bills. Since I live closer, I was asked if I could step in. My response was, “I already helped.”

This individual’s struggles are an ongoing thing. Initially I went to her rescue. I responded to her cries for help by spending time with her so she could talk things out. I also suggested she seek professional help. She signed up for counseling and was going for a while, but I’m not sure if it’s an ongoing thing. I was also volunteering at the food bank at that time so on several occasions I got her bags of groceries. I have done all I can do. I also don’t want to enable her. And I know occasionally we all slip up and need help. But when it’s the same story over and over I grew weary. I also have my own life to attend to. I wish her well, but my time of running to the rescue is over. And as the saying goes, “Feed a man a fish, he eats for day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.” It is up to her to go fishing.