What's the most selfless thing you've ever done?

Question

You do have a point, that in telling about your selfless act, it may no longer seem selfless, but I only ask because I like knowing that there is still good in the world. :) I ask for no other reason. Thank you for the answers. :)

Answer 1

I was ta a sporting event when an elderly man had a heart attack. there was no help available and everybody backed away in fear I suppose I didn't know what to do so I just held his hand and watched him die I wanted his last moments to be of a comfort it was all I could give him I was only 10 years old

Answer 2

Ummmmmmm. Funny, I really don't remember doing selfless things but am reminded of it often. My mother, father and uncle and now an aunt have said it many , many times to me. The thing is...I don't think of acts as being selfless...just acts that need to be done because someone needs you. It doesn't have to be someone you know just anyone who needs you. They don't ask for much and you can only do what you can...no great thing. But to them it is.

When I was very pregnant with my son...I could not drive. We had a Volvo with no power steering and it was a real effort to turn that steering wheel in that condition. My sister in law called me one day and asked if I wanted to go grocery shopping with her. It was the kindest thing/offering anyone had made to me that stands out in my memory. So you see, that may seem like a minor thing but to me it was such as big deal. Everyone can do little acts of kindness for others...always!

Answer 3

My family viewed this as selfless but actually i received much from it.
My half brother's 19 month old daughter had just died from cancer. I had helped take care of her and was very close to her and my brother. When it was time to take her to the funeral home he was so distraught of leaving her alone for the next three nights. He said she'd be placed in the ground soon enough and hated the thought of her body lying alone in the facility.
I offered to stay with her after closing until her burial. So each night when the family and friends had left I stayed behind with her. it was peaceful and serene and gave me just a bit more time with my little Paula.

Answer 4

When I was 16 , my parents were buying me a car, and they told me that I could pick a brand new car that was on the show room floor of a local dealership, and I told my dad that if they didn't come home with the little sports car that i had shown to him, i would never speak to him again!! ( the car was about 10 years old and my dad had already explained to me that it was wore out and would probably give me trouble.)

Well he bought me the sports car, and about a week of cruising town, it was in the shop about 1 once a month!!!

Years later, well even as I write this, I'm so ashamed of acting like a spoiled brat

Answer 5

The most selfless thing I have done would be giving up my dream of becoming a high powered exect in the corprate world to become a fulltime stay at home mommy.....Best choice I could ever have made!

Answer 6

I gave away a Ford Bronco to a teenager. Well, technically I sold it to him for a dollar. This probably sounds like a big deal, but really it isn't. I had a Chevy S-10 that I liked better, and the Bronco used too much gas. I think the kid took off the back roof and turned it into a flatbed truck so he could haul hay or something.

Answer 7

If you do it out of selflessness it would not be selfless if you spoke of it. But ok you pulled it out of me I did take the garbage out for the old man and never said a word:-)

Answer 8

Put myself into the National Bone Marrow Registry, so that if someone ever needs a BMT (bone marrow transplant), and I'm a match, I can give it to them. Of course, I don't really consider it selfless, I consider it my responsability as human being.

Answer 9

Well, Gave a shiit load of $60.00 + worth of goods to an animal shelter, and I expected nothing in return but satisfaction that I made someones day-although the people who ran the shelter were spiteful.

Answer 10

I'm sure it's something I don't even remember.

Let me explain that. I went to my high school reunion and a guy I didn't even recognize because he's bald and has a grey mustache came up to me. He sat down to talk with me, and in front of a woman we both knew and liked, explained that at age 13, he didn't do his science homework and asked to copy mine during the class just before science.

I said no. He should have thought of all of this the previous night. He was stunned and contrite. He looked down at the ground. "Please," he said, furrowing his brows. "Please."

I took a deep breath and finally said, quietly and dangerously, "I'll make a deal with you! Meet me here by this chain link fence at 2:40 this afternoon and we'll WALK home to your house. Do you have after-school sports? No? Good! Does your mother work? No?! Good. Here's my science homework for you to copy. Meet me here at 2:40."

He kept my science homework during our class and returned it to me at the end of the hour, having rewritten it in his own hand to turn in himself.

He met me at the fence and we walked to his house, a long walk, nearly two miles, that took me about 10 blocks beyond where I wanted to walk to go home myself. We got to the front door and I rang the bell!

His mother answered the door. "David has something to tell you!" I said without introducting myself.

"I didn't do my science homework," he said, edging forward toward the door. "I copied his homework instead and turned it in." He slithered through the door and was inside his own house.

"Would you like to come in?" his mother asked me.

I shook my head violently back and forth to say "No!" and began walking away. I thought this was a nice boy, someone I would have wanted to have as my friend, but now I knew that would never be. As I walked home, I thought about this situation and realized there was no other way I could possibly have handled it. I knew I was going to live a life with few, if any, friends.

At the reunion, he looked at me about being shamed in front of his mother and said, "That taught me responsibility. I never did anything like that again." I nodded. He didn't tell me his job while we were together at that high school reunion. I haven't lived in that part of the country for my entire adult working life, and I didn't ask him what his job was at the reunion. But others who went to school with us DID tell me that he is now a county judge.

On the plane bound for home, I asked myself, "Who am I? What am I?"

Is that the most selfless thing I've ever done? Maybe. I suppose there may be another story I'd have to be reminded of to remember.