yk n ep7, hwang dong man asks, have you asked for help from someone; continuing the happy ballad of the past episode, where euna and dongman break down in each others arms, caressing each other on the backs, when she finally gets what that unknown red wemotion is with the help of dong man himself having felt it twice under same circumstances. and they say, to each other, i'll help you.
so when in next episode the first thing dongman says is- have you asked for help from someone, my mind came up with very many names i've asked help from, first came the name of vaidehi, an internet acuaintance, i didnt explicitly asked her for any help, but i clearly remember i told her and i quote- "its tough you know, asking for help. because before getting to ask for help, you first have to accept that you are in trouble and you cannot get out of it on your own, thats inability, thats faliure, thats weakness of sorts. that you can not. accepting that jmeans accepting that yeah, i'm weak rn, i can not. and thats not it. now you have to somehow show that weakness of yours to someone, because when you sayi, hey, i need this help, you are basically saying, hey, i ca not do this on my own, hey, i failed, hey, i could not, hey i'm unable. and that. that is so very tough, to acknowledge not just in front of your own self but in front of someone else that, i cant. so you know. i think. when i do ask someone for help, i am actually doing something which is extremely tough to do. but i'm nevertheless doing it, am i not? i am asking for help. maybe that does translate to- i can not, but. the fact that i am ready to go beyond it and accept it as it is and then put effort in and have a will so strong to change the inability that i have, by having some aid, in any way tbh, the very fact that i'm willing and acting upon that will to change my inability by getting help, screams in capitals, about how fucking brave i am.
i am immesenly, maddeningly brave to ask for help, to cry out for help. and to those, who see my cry for help as a sigh of my weakness and try to distance themselves from me cuz cmon, who likes weak uncool people, those who spit and make faces and show disgust at my inabilities when i used up so much courage to lay them down in front of them only for them to stomp at them like my courage doesnt amount to anything rather i'm nothing but my weakness and my inabilities. to those people, i say fuck you, and that i hold you in the worst places of living creatures, like cockroaches, disgusting ugly thieving bugs or like vampires, just sucking life around them."
its of no note where this conversation of vaidehi and i went to or ended at, but i'll tell you that she agreed and shared my disgust at 'those' people.
so when in ep 7 hwang dong man asks a random dude, have you ever asked for help from someone? i was reminded of how brave i have been , how immensely cool and how brilliantly courageous, to wear my pain an dmy ugliness on my sleeve as if even those couldnt make me look or feel repelling, as if i was going around, showing everyone that i still shined, despite all this weakness and inabilities and all these failures. i. still. shined!!!! i wore it proud. i shone through.
oh and.
hwang dong man's question also reminded me of the fact that despite me asking for help from a few people, around 3-4, all of whom did the opposite of help, ruined me further, there was one person. one person who actually, genuinely helped me, and oh how she helped me. my whole life i might never repay her for that help, she saved me. you know all those songs where people are talking about sunshine and related metaphors, she encompasses all of them in her soft small hands, in her silly stupid mouth, in her wild unrelenting existence. that person is my sister. my siddhu. my saviour. my sun.
So yeah, if hwang dong man was asking me this question, "have you ever asked for help from someone?" i'll answer- "yes. my sister."