To be met.

What do I need? It’s such a big question. Simple and impossibly complex at the same time, because under it are so many more.

Am I supposed to? Am I allowed to?

What does it matter? What’s the point?

What would I do with the answer anyway? Where would I even start?

What do they need? We can easily answer that one. On the spot, sometimes with our eyes closed, in a split, subconscious second. We know the answers, the variety of answers, the possibilities and the scenarios that match with each. When something is new we stay with it, we keep asking until we know that one too.

We know because we’ve trained ourselves.

We know because we’ve practiced.

We know because the questions underneath that question are also easy to answer.

I should. I must.

It’s my job, my duty, my love. It is absolutely necessary.

When I know the answer I will simply do what I can to meet that need for them.

What do you need? Maybe the very first thing, the answer for today, is to know that you are allowed to and that you should ask the question. To make a commitment to ask it again tomorrow and again and again after that. So that you can start to feel where the answer will be coming from when you do have one.

Because you should and you must. Because your job, your duty, your love depends on it. Because it is absolutely necessary for you to be well, to be ok, for you and your needs to be met.