Being Helped

Each adult held one of his hands.  Each was helping him walk down the stairs, but each was going in a different direction and one was not as tall as the other so his hands were being held, and pulled, from different heights.  Neither adult thought the other very helpful, or not as helpful as she would have been alone -- but each held on, pulling from her level.  It is not easy being helped.  No matter that he might have done it poorly alone, it might have been better to try.  But there had been no choice, and so he helped through his endurance -- and by so doing, helping both of his helpers far more than either were helping him.