Who To Ask For Help Without Looking Needy

Mikel L.
3 min readMar 17, 2022

I couldn’t find anyone to help me move my giant bookcase. It’s not exactly something you can ask just anyone to help you out with. Not without putting yourself in a vulnerable position.

Like asking someone to pick you up or drop you off at the airport. An intimate gesture for a mundane request. Yet I obsess over the meaning of it all; how such a request could be perceived by the other…

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