All the King's horses

".....All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again"

I remember reading this as a child and thinking "What's wrong with these men that they can't put a simple egg back together?" and also "Who thought it was a good idea to ask the horses to help?" When I grew up, I realized how hard it would be to try to reassemble an egg and actually be able to keep all of the parts together. Then today I started thinking  - What if you could do it, but the egg didn't want to be put back together?

Have you ever tried to help someone who didn't seem to want to be helped? You can see them making the wrong choices, turning the wrong way, headed for danger but you feel powerless to stop them? You stand there waving your arms, jumping up and down, screaming at the top of your lungs but they are blind and deaf to your desperate warnings. In the end you have to watch them fall and hope they will be able to put themselves back together.

And then there is the other side. Sometimes you know the choices you are making aren't beneficial. You know you are headed down the wrong path but you can't seem to stop and turn around. You can see people trying to warn you but still you can't stop. And as you feel yourself falling you hope someone will be there who will know how to put you back together again.

Neither role is easy.
No one "wins". 
And both sides hope for a soft landing.