Helping Others: This Is What I Believe In
I believe in helping and giving others. Ever since I was young, at the end of the year, my mom would tell me to separate the clothes that I did use from the ones I did not, and then she would take me and my sisters to rural areas and give them to the people that needed them. I would always ask my mom why were we doing that and she would always say that when I grew up, I would learn the importance of giving. It was not until I turned 15 that I joined an official volunteer group. The memory is still vivid to me when I traveled for two and a half hours to visit a group of native people who suffered through scarcity of water and lived without the basic luxuries that we have such as electricity, no electricity meant no refrigerator to even store the left-over food that they had.
You know those moments when you realize how extremely lucky you are and start appreciating everything? That was my moment of realization. Ever since that moment, I started to empathize about people who were less fortunate. I often wondered why don’t we help them or at least try to make a difference in their lives. To me, solidarity is one of the most important values which consists of collaborating with other people. With this value, you can provide help with difficult times. It is a social act and allows human beings to be human and social at the base of other values such as fidelity, understanding, support, friendship among others.
When facing challenges or trying to overcome obstacles, solidarity must be present so that the union of forces and the communion of wills aspire to succeed in any mission. The lack of understanding and cooperation between those parts only ensures their destruction and the impossibility of achieving goals or articulating actions to benefit them. Unfortunately, this situation reflects the reality of some places in the world. The lack of a solidary vision and blindness of view avoid privileging the general interest.
Whenever I feel like I am deviating away from my reason, I remember what Martin Luther King states as “life’s most persistent and urgent question, ‘What are you doing for others?’” When you give something expecting something in return or with pain and heaviness, that is not generosity, because you are not giving the best of yourself. On the other hand, when you give something with joy and without any selfish interest, that is called Generosity. As Marco Tulio Cicero mentions it is necessary to be kind, fair and willing to give in many cases of our own right.
When one volunteers with the genuine and sincere goal of helping others for pleasure and with the pure intention of giving without expecting anything in return, a feeling of satisfaction and even charm emerges that nourishes and enriches immediately. You can feel your personal skills improving and the sensitivity is better, so that finally everyone benefits. Whenever you give, you do not have less, in the contrary, you multiply and enrich yourself, a mathematical rule that is difficult to explain.
So I believe in helping others. My mother’s words often resonate in my ears saying that “giving is the best gift”. The importance of all this lies in giving and serving others, helping those who have been at that point where life becomes monotonous and stop enjoying the benefits of everything, we need to show the underprivileged that an unhappy and complicated life is not the best way to live, show them that there is hope. Helping is an act that brings positive energy to people, in addition to bringing light to the world we live.
