[Story] Help others. Even if you think you can't.

This happened last tuesday.

I've been a little depressed for the last few weeks because i've been thinking that nothing i'm doing right know is making a great impact or is very important at all for my future or for other people.

I'm working as self-imployed in a very small company (just myself) and also i'm studying a kind of useless degree at the same time.

Also i've been struggling with low productivity that added up to that bad feeling.

Anyway, one thing i am trying to do for the last few days is to do a little of exercise everyday, and that day i arrived home very late (around 10:00pm) and i decided to go for a run.

It was very dark outside so i went next to the river of my city and when i was crossing the bridge for the first time i saw a young guy seated on a bench alone staring at the railing of the bridge.

I thought It was strange.

I kept running because i thought there were more people around that could have done something.

But that image of him stayed in my brain as i kept running so I said i would stop if he was still there when i was coming back home.

So i came back and there was him seated alone in a strange way and still staring at the railing...

I stopped and asked if everything was okay, he said: ''yes''

and then he said: ''well...''

So i seated down with him i introduced myself and we talked for a while.

He told me he was 19, from my city and he was depressed because he thought he was lost and doing nothing with his life and because of that he had a big fight with his parents so he left his house 2 weeks ago. (He was living with his parents)

He was sleeping in his garage (his parents didn't know). He was frozen and he haven't eaten in the whole day. So i took him to a restaurant so we could kept talking.

It turns out that he was living a situation that i lived last year when i had a big crisis and a big fight at home so i was living for a month at my office thinking that my parents were the enemy.

I told him that at least in our cases, our parents love us and if they don't do it better is because they don't know how. And that we are the ones making ourserves feel bad.

When we finish the dinner he told me he was thinking about coming back home and fix the things up with his parents so I drove him home (we were pretty far away from his house)

Since then I don't think anymore you can't have an impact in someone's life even if you feel small or afraid.

I've being working like a beast since then knowing that at least i am helping myself, so maybe i can also help others later.

I hope that guy is doing better and i also hope that you will stop the next time someone needs help. Maybe you could change someone's life. Maybe that could also change your life as well.

Submitted November 20, 2017 at 12:12AM by Rodsp21 http://ift.tt/2zQU8TW