If someone only calls when they need help, you’re their on-call assistant.
It’s not a crime to want to move in peace.
Some classmates will never stop until they see you fall down.
Needing reasonable help isn’t the problem, but being shamed for it is.
Not all heroes wear a cape. Some just know how to recover lost documents.
Helping family is noble, until it starts costing you your own life, sanity, and unfinished to-do list.
Helping once doesn’t mean you have to help forever.
When someone offers to pay, let them.
If your instinct says not to help, don’t help.
Sometimes “no” is the most fluent answer.
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