When you make an ask, you give others a chance to take something they maybe didn't even know they were ready to give. You are a catalyst for helping them move on to something new with their space. New and fresh decisions come so much more easily when charged with new hope for what has been given up to make that space. It makes space in the giver's mind for the work of dreaming.
When you make an ask, you offer a continuation for something they have loved, something they've cared for--and they didn't even know that good thing was on its way to find them.
So who is really the giver here? Both. That, to me, is humility. It's a relationship, not a factor singularly controlled by one side of a connection or the other. It's what gives beauty to balance, otherwise balance is just a pause before the next thing happens.
Karate was born in Naha (Okinawa). Please think about that with me. They weren't a series of small, isolated groups that rebranded their fancy exercise program. They were neighbours, and they were a small and united people, on an island, and they were surviving. In a way, that's the whole world. So if I have something I can give, please ask me. Do me the favour.
