HELPLESSNESS

SHORT STORY

Wizard Dinner (Emotions:Jealousy/Helplessness)

Deep in Camelot lives a wizard and witch couple. Morlo and Marla. The couple are a happily married pair of 116 years with no intention of parting. There is one problem. At the time of dinner Morlo the wizard disappears. He has been for the last 26 years. One day after a good nights rest, Marla wakes earlier than Morlo
in bed. She switches Morlos wand with a tall thick piece of licorice. When the time for supper arrives, Morlo walks away to do his usual disappearing act but is stunned when his wand doesn’t work. Marla meets him and telles him she replaced his
wand with licorice because he vanished when she cooked dinner.
Morlo explains that he always leaves because she always only cooks gourmet rats and he is tired of the sme food every night. So he goes to the Manor House down the street to eat beef, bacon and lamb the excellent chef cooks. Upset, Marla puts her wand in the air and yells a terrible spell. She tells Morlo that the
chef and the entire household are now cows, pigs and sheep.

HELPLESSNESS
“Learned helplessness” is where someone has learned to act helpless even with offered help if the person feels he connot take the outcome. It may be derived from having a feeling of worthlessness. Misunderstanding situations and passive aggressiveness may accompany a person of helplessness as their misguided beliefs say to them that there is nothing of their doing that can change a situation. Helplessness leads to hopelessness and may also effect their health, diet and mutual stability.

CURE: A person in helplessness will have a negative outlook on life and this must be turned into a positive “healthy” outlook on life. They must learn that they alone control their own outcome and existence. They must learn to see the positive in other people and in themselves. They must learn to stop making excuses and
find solutions to the problem. They must think more about past positive experiences than the negative one. Ask yourself if you’re making the reasons and then becoming helpless. Stop running from pain to get pleasure and work on ways to avoid pain.

HELPLESSNESS (Quotes)
“Helplessness induces hopelessness and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.” – B.H. Liddell Hart

“It is hardly possible to build anything if fustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.” – Lech Walesa

“Learned helplessness is the giving up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.” – George Bernard
Shaw

“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – John Maxwell

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to remake at any moment.” – Marcus Aurelius

“If I look at the mass I will never act.” – Mother Teresa