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LW: Wonderful letter. I'm not sure how to respond because I've never been the kind of person that everyone goes to when they have a problem. Yet I do feel at times that the people around me don't want to help me, and that they only want to talk about themselves. Admittedly, even the closest of my friends and family do not understand my deepest beliefs and feelings. But I think that is true to some extent for everybody. We are never entirely self-sufficient, yet we are all in our own way alone. For years you have been the person that everybody turns to, the person that everybody takes for granted. Truth be told, we all need someone in our life like that. You do, too. It can be a total stranger that you pour out all your vicious thoughts, a therapist who helps people resolve their psychological problems the whole day, a parent who loves you unconditionally. It can even be a child for whom you work selflessly. I don't know how helpful I have been, but I hope that you can see from the other letters that we all feel the same way once in a while and that we are all offering our help to you, through advice and words of comfort. The world is a strange place. People selfishly take from us: businessmen exploit workers, politicians take advantage of their power, religious leaders feed onto our insecurities by offering an explanation of the world. Yet, we selfishly take from others as well: our society rewards the very few of us who are literate, earn wages and have a good quality of life while exploiting who are the poorest. In the end, nobody can judge who the victims are and who the perpetrators are.
