I can't Juggle, part 2- when to ask for help

In May of 2017 I wrote I Can’t Juggle.

This past weekend we had the opportunity to get away. And as you do on little vacations (or all the time) we decided to treat ourselves to ice cream. The plan was to take the ice cream with us and eat it after dinner. The gal behind the counter offered to put lids on the bowls. Perfect!

Faced with four bowls of ice cream with lids, I had two choices. One was to ask my mom, just five feet away, for help me carry the ice cream. The other was to attempt to carry them all myself. So of course, I attempted to carry them all myself. They had lids, surely I could balance all of them at once…

Almost immediately the chocolate ice cream fell to the floor. But good news, it didn’t open or spill. Not a great tragedy.

But I was reminded, right then and there, that sometimes you need to ask for help. Or more importantly, there is no reason to do it all by yourself when you have help available.

So if Life was a Dream, and it was my dream…

It’s better to ask for help, than to drop the chocolate ice cream on the floor. But also, no harm in trying if the chocolate ice cream isn’t going to spill. But also, the chocolate ice cream was for the youngest child and if it had spilled it would have been the end of the world…so yeah, better to ask for help.