there's a thing on helping i read and was going to put here but i'll just say what it made me think. it came after seeing the two guys below make a story/money exchange. not that one told a story for money, his story of need is need, but need tells a story, and money may result. though i the one in need has told me stories that seem crafted in the need of money, and may be true, though when my story was i need photos he demurred. it's interesting, need. i know i don't need photos to eat, i have money for that, and i don't need photos for money, but i have needs too, and the stories by themselves aren't enough. everything is some kind of exchange whether money or story or something simply needing expression. i don't have the need to rescue, though i feel the tug of need, and the response of overwhelm, even though i give now and then. i can help a little but i can't rescue. i'm rescuing myself daily, by trying to see and feel within this overwhelming pandemic story.   i saved this from the thing i read ...the vast majority has needs that lie beneath the surface, unmet and often unseen. until the person resolves their own inner dramas, they play them out in their relationships with others, drawn to those who need them and often unable to acknowledge their own needs or get them met.