Prosocial Behavior - Help or Ignore?

Help? Ignore?


One of the chapter learned in Social Psychology has came to make me to ponder a little.


Prosocial Behavior = Helping others in need


I personally believe throughout the whole life, we offer and accept uncountable help.


When you help, do you think of why you help? How bout when you are receiving help, do you ask yourselves why are you getting those helps?


Firstly, why we help?


"Because I feel like helping!" "No why... I just want to help!" "Who knows next time I need help also??"


Most of the time, this could be the words/excuses/reasons that come out from our mouths!!


Yeah... It is true that somehow we help other merely just to help - which is known as 'Altruism'


Also, we tend to help in such a way that the helps given are actually benefited to us in certain way.


Now, the question is how you yourself define the kind of help you give to others.


Somehow, not much of us can draw a clear cut in this. Even myself to be honest.


However, the most important is we help! And we Feel Good!


Helping other although it is just a little tiny not-so-important yet easily-to-be-forgotten help, we will feel EXTREMELY GOOD about it.


That is what we also want dont we??


So, help others in a way that is also helping yourself!




"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody!"


~ Chinese Proverb ~