Maya Angelou

My favorite person, Maya once said

“Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt”

Now there is a philosophy I have never heard before;

I am trying to wrap my mind around this statement:

Is it about people that try to give you things they don’t have?

Or is it a realization that people can’t give you what you need because they don’t possess it?

Like love, or respect or even gratitude!

I have lived a life of giving, to those who have nothing.

But now I see what she meant:

Those that have nothing are better off, in the aspect of heart.

You can’t ask someone to love you when they have none;

You can’t give away what you have and be left without!

It seems true that the world revolves, and brings us back to where we started;

With no more than what we had.

When you reach out to love someone, if they never were given any, what would they do with it?

If they never had it?

So is it an empty gesture to try and help others lives better by sharing what you have?

Or better to let them find what they need on their own?

To me this has become a crossed edged sword!

If I have nothing to offer someone I can’t help them;

So maybe helping someone is not the best way to help;

Maybe motivating them to get for themselves is all the best thing,

For them to learn to depend on themselves, not others, and not for anything from others!

I believe it’s called self sufficientcy.

Wow this woman just rocked my world!