2006-11-10 04:46:58 · 12 answers · asked by Dave 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I totally believe that by helping someone else you are in turn helping yourself. I am studying to be a nurse and there are many days I've had, in the past, during clinicals that I really thought that I did not want to keep doing this. I got through the entire nurse aid thing and helped a lot of people at the nursing home. I know by their gratitude that I was doing the right thing for myself and for my family.
I also get to help a huge amount of people, and I think I really enjoy nursing as a career choice.
2006-11-10 04:52:56 · answer #1 · answered by ~brigit~ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe, but there's a huge difference between helping someone brilliant and capable to achieve and prosper and helping someone who's given up on life to have a hot meal and cot with a roof over their head for the night. There's also a slippery slope between altruism and sacrifice. One day you're giving a bum a dollar, the next day you're volunteering for a non-profit organization and wasting your talents, not producing, not enjoying yourself, and being a negative to the economy. The only reason someone would sign up for such a deal is their feeling of guilt, and I say it's undeserved guilt.
Bill Gates made a grave error recently when he donated to charity to help fight AIDS. He should've opened a for profit top scientific company to fight AIDS, one that hired the best, to create drugs to sell at the lowest prices viable, while still paying the big bucks to all involved in the research and running the company. That's how to fight AIDS. Not expect volunteers or guilty rich people to "do their best" to invent solutions.
2006-11-10 05:06:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
man I can not believe how smart you are,
this is the first tiem in a long time I have heard some one say this..
this is what I do almost all the time...
I do not do stuff just to get something back..I do it to actually help people..and usually like they say..what goes around, comes around..even if that person never helps you out..some one will...that what I think anyways
good for you, keep up the good work
good luck
smile
2006-11-10 05:20:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, when you're helping someone else you also get self satisfactory. plus, the other person will be happy for getting help. it's a win-win situation. =)
2006-11-10 04:54:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In motivational circles, they are always saying, "You can have anything you want if you just help enough other people get what they want." And, I do believe that.
2006-11-10 04:50:10 · answer #5 · answered by Momma Jo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
of course....i believe that we are not whole, or fully human or fulfilling God's will unless we make every effort to help someone else when we can!
2006-11-10 04:49:16 · answer #6 · answered by Carolina Girl 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most definately! I like to live my life by "paying ahead" or what ever it is called when you do a kindness for no reason at all.
2006-11-10 04:57:40 · answer #7 · answered by SandyM 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely I do. And I have been doing it for many years through online peer work with people who have anxiety, panic and depression.
2006-11-10 04:50:00 · answer #8 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's called the "dark horse" syndrome. By teaching, you're learning.
2006-11-10 04:54:41 · answer #9 · answered by nuttin'fancy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do believe that. Very strongly.
2006-11-10 04:48:52 · answer #10 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋