Show, Don't Tell

I have been fortunate to have been surrounded by very good teachers and professors during my education. So my shortcomings can't be nailed to them in any way. Having been given all sorts of help along the way, I then had the audacity to ask one associate professor to help me with a very specific thing. Paradoxically he declined to help me with the thing I asked of him. I was perplexed. He forced open my eyes to the bridges instead. Sometimes help comes in the strangest disguises. And is seldom what you ask for.