The thing i find hardest is that it's never busy, and it's quietly changed my relationship to asking for help

not a productivity post. a stranger observation about what daily use has done to me. every human i've ever asked for help has a cost attached. my colleague is busy. my friend has her own problems. my mentor's time is finite and precious and i'm aware, every time i take some, that i'm spending something i can't fully repay. so i ration. i batch my questions. i talk myself out of asking things that feel too small to bother anyone with, and a huge number of my questions simply never get asked. and this thing i