Short Story: Only vulnerability overcomes vulnerability

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Freda was an older woman who had lived most of her life feeling vulnerable in her life. She wanted to help others, and to give them of herself. But she felt that she had nothing to give. And with nothing to give, she thought that she could give them nothing of value then. The truth is though, we all have nothing to give. When we give from nothing, it becomes something. Thinking that we have something to give, always colours the giving with an aspect of our own selfishness of our wanting a certain outcome from our giving. We should not want to be somewhere, (or someone) else before we start giving. We should give of ourselves, of ourselves, as we are right now. When we allow uncertainty to be our certainty, we allow vulnerability to make us vulnerable. We can be vulnerable positively, by being who we are openly. The seeker never finds, because the finder is always someone other than who you are now. Be who you are now, and find the seeker is then satisfied in the only way that it can ever be satisfied fully. Freda stopped trying to escape from her vulnerability, and by embracing it, she became her true self. Vulnerability then can either be part of your humility, or part of your fear. In one, it serves you. In the other, it just goes to bash you over the head with itself. Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: unsplash.com Freda had to sit down with herself on her own bench to be herself in her self.