Why do you move the way you move?
Okay, after watching one of those sappy movies that plucks at our heartstrings and it being 1:25 AM I am ready to write another blog. What are our motives? What are our reasons for making our decisions? We make decisions out of love, hate, jealousy, pride, and the list goes on. Overall the list boils down to reasons that are self centered and those that are not. How many of us can say that the choices we make don't have self-centered origins? Do we help someone to get recognized? In all that we do are we just trying to show off instead of really helping? In a way I think a lot of the decisions that we make are because for ourselves. Not to say that there isn't the occasional good deed, but a lot of the things we do are for purely selfish reasons. Yes, there are going to be a lot of you who read this and say to yourselves that you do things purely for other people; and I can't disprove anything. I just ask you to look into it and really question yourself on why you do things. And even as I am a total pessimist on the way the world works. I think that we should be doing things just for the sake of goodness. I believe that this is the way we were created and the way the world should work. But I also know that this isn't the way most of the world works. I rarely see a good deed that is purely out of good intentions. Could this change? I am not really sure. I am sure the perfect world would have everyone doing things for the good of other people, but as for our world? It really is hard to say. Yet I do know that it is better for us to try than to not do anything at all.
posted by Dr.Saint at
1:25 AM
2 Comments:
I must say that I agree. Perhaps simply in helping someone, even if the intent is not selfish, the result is, because in some way you will benefit from having helped that person. The benefit may not be immediately recognized, or even material. But maybe the desire to feel good for having helped someone is a selfish desire too. Then again, is it selfish if we are not aware of it?
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Liga, at 9:30 PM
Selfishness is a hard thing to classify. I think it really depends on the person who did it because I might say that from my point of view someone does a good deed just to be recognized, but for that person it really is that he just was being nice. And to feel good for doing something isn't really selfish. However, it is selfish to do good deeds justto get the feeling. But yea its all a big wheel that goes around and around.
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Dr.Saint, at 4:21 PM
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