We, Chinese, have an old saying that it is better to help ourselves by ourselves than to ask others to help us. But, to help ourselves by our own needs a simple life and good health.
If we can apply a simple life to our daily living, such as eating, dressing, housing, transporting, we shall, then, not ask others to help us mush. But, if our life is complicated, we have to ask other people to help us in many ways.
Actually, for example, in living, we just have a house big enough for us to live on, not necessary too big than we need. A big house needs clean and in such case, we must ask other person or persons to clean, even we can afford to pay.
In spite of that we are rich and we can afford to pay any expenses which arise from our complicated life, but we have still to pay our time in instructing others to do thing to our satisfaction.
Therefore, as long as we do not wish others to help, we have to live simple. Only simplicity does not need us much time and by the simplicity we can live a very happy life.
On the other hand, we need good health which is the fundamental factor to do things by ourselves. Without good health, we have to depend on other people to help us. That is why health is the important things to take care in our life.