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# How May I Serve?
- URL: https://acmewong.com/how-may-i-serve/
- Published: 2026-08-26T19:56:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-26T20:45:06.000Z
- Author: Acme Wong

*👉 this writing is organic, no AI was used in any way in conceiving, writing, or editing it. enjoy! ✨* 

I want to help you, but I don't know who you are or what you need.

I can come up with "avatars" of people similar to me or similar to others who I have known, but I don't know who you are and I don't know what you need help with. 

It's hard to sit in a room, alone, and feel connected to other people who you've never met and have no idea what they want or need or how to help them.

So I sit down and ask myself...

  - Who needs my help?
  - How may I serve?
  - What can I do to help?
  - What can I create?
  - Who can I be for the people who need my help?
  - If I don't help, what will happen to them?
  - How can I connect with my people (the people I'm best suited to help) so I can actually feel the pain of me not showing up to help them?

I ask myself, as if my feeble human brain could possibly know, but the answers to questions like these don't just come out of thin air. 

We can't just sit down and wring our brains out like a wet cloth and collect all the brain juice that has all the magic answers.

This isn't Hogwarts.

This isn't a Hollywood movie.

Some of us are blessed with answers from an early age, answers that are clear as day. Blessed with the knowledge of exactly who to serve and how to serve them.

I wasn't.

You probably weren't either.

That's actually probably extremely rare. 

That's the stuff that movies are made of. 

So how do people like you and me figure that out?

How do we know what to create and who we are creating it for and why and how to help them and actually make a difference?

I think we uncover the answers to those questions (and more) by taking chances, putting ourselves out there, and getting feedback from random strangers who accidentally stumble upon our works and let us know if we were helpful or unhelpful.

If that's true, then we can't make "wrong" works.

Whether it's writing, painting, filmmaking, or anything else that we create, for most of us, the path is only made clear after we have overcome the resistance of not knowing, the resistance of uncertainty, the resistance of potentially being judged, made fun of, or dismissed.

Our path only becomes clear after we try, fail, try again, fail again, and do that every day for so many days that it is *inevitable* that we start getting noticed, whether positively or negatively, and we start getting feedback.

We start hearing from real people who appreciate (or hate) what we're doing and maybe have some constructive (or destructive) criticism that will nudge us in the right direction and make our next step on the path, and thus our overall direction, a little clearer.

And then we do that for another hundred days in a row.

Maybe two hundred.

Maybe more.

Before we know it, we have a better understanding of who we are, how we fit in, and how we can help others who need the help that only we can deliver in our own unique way, and doing that lights up our souls and it lights up their souls and suddenly we're brightening the universe together.

It starts with a daily offering... "Here, I made this. Does this help?"

And this was my offering for today, and I made it for you.

Does this help?