On the Gratification of Help -- The Joy of Helping Others and Directory
- Mr. Tomasio Rubinshtein
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Directory on Help and Rectification:
The Article
If we would help each other as a habit, the world would be a better place to live in. If we extended our hearts to help those in need, we could make this world a better place to live in -- one person at a time.
I recall the joy of giving a snack to a homeless man on a New Year's Eve. He was grateful and wished me a happy year. I could've ignored him like anyone else in that street, but the difference between me and others is that I enjoy helping others.
When I help someone, I think of how they've benefitted thanks to me, and I feel grateful. Grateful for the opportunity to help. All and all, I have a free philosophy blog just for you because of the same reason -- I enjoy helping people.
As an ascetic I don't live on much. My diet is very strict, and I went out of my way to help a lot of people. I gave them hope to live another day and if it weren't for me, they could've done horrible things to themselves.
It goes beyond people's heads but, all I want to do is to help make this world a better place to live in. I know that in my contributions to the world, I create a ripple effect of rectification. By helping one person I make their day which then allows them to function better, which then helps them do their jobs, which then helps their company, which then contributes better and so on.
We all share the same world. The boundaries between countries are artificial. We are all interconnected by rules of cause and effect and I found that by helping people, I rid myself of my darkness and feel better.
I feel I will always want to help people because that's what makes me happy. I already helped a lot of people in my contributions, and I live in a solitary manner because I don't want my good nature to be exploited.
The problem with help is that there are people who aren't worthy of help. Ungrateful people who would leave you the moment you do something they don't like. It's vital to be able to distinguish between people who are worthy of help and people who aren't. Use your intuition to figure out who is trustworthy and who is not. I know that trusting people is a matter of luck and as such I don't overly risk myself.
I am an ascetic who has forsaken this world a second time because I believe this world has failed. A world that makes people want to take their own lives is not a world I find desirable to live in. Instead, I find it a world that deserves to be rectified.
I believe that one of the reasons this world has failed is because people are not taught to help others. Instead, they are taught to help themselves above all. Instead of cooperation, the world is overly competitive. Instead of harmony and peace we have struggles to preserve our current positions and to survive as individuals, instead of as a species.
I think there is a good reason why helping others is enjoyable -- it's what we are supposed to do, to survive not as individuals but as a species. If the human species helped each other more, rather than let politicians divide us by hate, this world would be a better place to live in.
Ever since I was a child, I helped my grandmother be happier. In her final years she was far happier thanks to me, compared to the rest of her lifetime. I believe that we should be there for the very elders that have brought us and our parents into this world and learn from them. That's why, as a child, I visited my late grandmother often.
Throughout my life I felt depressed because I wasn't given the opportunity to contribute in the education system. I was told that I should keep things to myself and not overly express myself. I think my grandmother had managed to educate me better than the schools I went to back when I was a student.
It is only through helping others that I managed to get out of that depression and feel better. Helping others makes me feel relevant. Helps me feel like I am not wasting my time, that I'm not a "klumnik".
After I help, I think of the good that I've done and it helps gratify me. Sometimes I think I am too good for this world because my ethics are incompatible with this divisive, twisted world that's built on competition and injustice.
The reason why I don't have many connections is because a man with very few connections is a very secure man. I only help when I decide to, and don't want to be exploited. Also, writing, my prime directive, is a very solitary craft.
I was mesmerized by the ideal world my late grandmother described to me in her Pax Ethica philosophy -- a world where, in her words, "dogs don't chase after cats and vice versa"; a world with no wars or battles. A peaceful, stable world.
And in my behaviour and actions, I try to bring forth that world. A world of good. A world where we care for each other. A world of harmony.
I know I am just one man, but I want to keep building this free empire of articles because helping is what I enjoy doing the most.
I care less for profit because I have just about enough to live. With all my heart I want to build a wonderland of philosophy where visitors would flock and enjoy. I want to rectify the world passively, through my and other people's articles, as I rest and respite and live my life. I want a better world than this one, and instead of merely wishing for it, I actively sit down and write. I actively become the change I want to see in this world.
I think that only if we would be willing to cooperate with each other, instead of fighting one another for our survival, would this world be a better place to live in. Ideally, wars and battles should be a final resort, not immediate, impulsive choices. Only when we will be willing to help each other to survive together, instead of "to each their own", this world would be a better place to live in.
The gratification of helping others is therefore very rational because we all share the same home -- Planet Earth. That's why I went my way and saved people. The fact that we are all interconnected was always elementary to me.
As long as we allow ourselves to be divided by cultures that foster hate instead of harmony, we would continue to deteriorate this world instead of repairing it.
Even if this world is beyond repair, I refuse to be heartless. Helping others is just way too fun for me. With all my heart I shall keep walking the path of the truly good person, even if it means being alone with very few people to talk to, out of security reasons.
I shall see it through that I shall continue to live as a shadow in the real world, not seek fame for the sake of fame, and not seek to cater to a failing world, because all I want to do is to build a better world within the greater world. A world of stability, a world of harmony and peace, because helping others is what makes me happy.
