There are times, from the position of "child" that one tries to hold things together, to get the grown-ups to use love and not anger to speak to each other and to the children. One tries to reach to a parent for comfort and meets a cold, dead silence or worse, one meets violence.

And yet, even as one grows to adulthood, and moves away, these are still one's parents, or those who gave them shelter as they prepared to move out into the world. No matter what else, there must have been food and shelter enough, attention enough, that one now walks in the world as an independent person. And wildly enough, even before one reaches the point of independence, there is the urge to help those on whom one relies. One feels an obligation.

One way to shed this burden is to help those who have assisted you. It gives a feeling of achievement. "One can help a person who finds himself in the dilemma of unpaid obligations and debt by simply going over with him or her all the obligations they have incurred and have not fulfilled- moral, social and financial- and work out some way to discharge all those the person feels are still owed." L. Ron Hubbard.

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