I guess it depends on how you view the world, I see humanity as one entity with many parts kinda like your body is one entity but made of many cells, which make organs, which make your body. If we are all one, helping another is helping yourself, if we are all separate, with no connection at all this view doesn't work. If you use the analogy of a body you could see where your survival depends on the survival of others and for you to thrive, the whole should thrive. My personal belief is that by attending to the needs of those that truly need to be helped we elicit a response from the whole to reward us for our efforts and to help make us even more capable to help out.
I believe there are other ways that giving can help us clear emotional issues and some of them where mentioned in another thread specifically about giving. I suggest committing to trying it out for at least 90 days and just see for yourself if it works, this one you can test, and get objective results. |