Relative Something

Much as it may seem that the miracle of friendship is manifest in the way our friends support us in times of need, the bigger miracle worth noting may occur at the moment we allow ourselves to actually ask our friends for help. I think most of us recognize the difficulty in determining when it is time to ask.

I’m reminded of a thought that occurred to me last weekend when I was biking with Jack through the woods in Wisconsin:

How do you know when you are carrying too much speed into a corner?

The answer is, you don’t know you have too much speed until it is too late and you are unable to stay on the trail through the end of the turn. “Oops, should have applied the brakes a bit there!”

How do you know when it’s too late to ask a friend for help?

It is never too late to ask.