And did it give you a good boost of endorphins? Or were the trade-offs significant?
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17 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 2 Apr
I helped a guy trying to get a small fridge into his car at Home Depot the other day. He definitely did not plan that out.
Yes it was nice to help someone who needed a hand.
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 17h
When we bought a smoker at costco many years ago, a guy noticed we were having trouble fitting in my car. He offered to load it in his truck and drop it off because he was going the same way. It was so awesome it was scary.
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55 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 16h
That’s awesome.
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 21h
almost every day, i'm sitting with people to listen to their challenges... this is not my professional day-job, but i get a lot of requests from my community
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 22h
Let me just put it this way. If you aren't helping someone every day... I'm not sure what you are doing with your life.
- If you have a job you are helping someone.
- If you have a family and are not helping someone... you are terrible
- If you live in a community and aren't helping anyone in that community... its time to start looking around for things where you could
- If you are a Christian and aren't helping people, you need to talk to your pastor, or priest about it and ask them for counsel.
We are not meant to live alone. Humans need community and community involves helping others. We all can help others and will all need help from time to time.
Yes, helping others does feel good. Not always though. Some people are not grateful or thankful. But, I have found that joy can be found in doing almost any task.
I really think that some of the depression we see in people today is due to selfishness. Not being connected to communities and therefore focusing more inwardly instead of outwardly. Even just having a job that you go to each day can help. That is, if you put your best effort into that job. If you just half-ass it... you know it and it will be a drag. Seek to do good work.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @carter 23h
I was riding down a trail and another rider said "you aren't going that way" as I noticed a tree down across the path. Rather than turn around I started trying to move the fallen tree. The next few guys that arrived all started to help and with 5 guys we all moved the tree out of the way and went on about our rides. It felt pretty good to fix something so quickly
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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @teemupleb 23h
I helped a young, tiny, attractive woman with two suitcases on the staircase.. but that was all of it unfortunately.
Made me feel masculine and chivalrous.
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62 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 2 Apr
Honestly, I tend to help out quite often, and I say frequently because it's something that happens to me almost daily during my work days. Very simple and small things, like helping a lady get on or off public transportation when she's carrying her shopping cart or packages. Helping people who are lost about which direction to take to get somewhere. Or something else that happens to me a lot is helping people by telling them which public transportation route is best for them to use depending on where they're going. I meet a lot of people who aren't very familiar with public transportation routes. Aside from that, I'm not the one who helps others the most, but I'm always willing to lend a hand if the situation requires it.
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137 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 2 Apr
pretty sure I help coworkers with nonsense every single day 😂
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34 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 2 Apr
I mean, every single day... in some sense "work" is helping someone else (unless you work a bullshit job or you're a government employee... sorry for repeating myself).
As an act of kindness/old lady across the street? No clue. (you could call me dogsitting for over a week being helpful! #929023)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 22h
Good answer
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54 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 2 Apr
Today. Helped 2 junior colleagues.
With one, it felt good as we reasoned together to a solution he could not have figured out on his own.
With one, it felt bad as she took away some of my own focused time for something trivial that she could have figured out herself without bothering me.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mrtali 17h freebie
Helpin'g a lady within a baby carriage 2go up stairs. She was struggleling n' errbody just passin' over. I just helped without even askin'. We bitcoiners r different. If there's somethin' I learnt is that when you wanna do anythin' 4good don't even ask or if u do note that the first answer will be no then it will turn 2yes only cos of urself.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2 Apr
My favorite form of helping is helping other founders, because I'm not very far along myself and I learn a lot about myself in the process. The trade-offs are mostly:
- we come to loathe people that help us because they remind us of our weakness
- most people want advice that costs them nothing to follow, and advice rarely takes that form, so it's often wasted
- it's hard watching people cope with the occasional and inevitable poor outcomes - we tend to imagine we're being persecuted rather than admitting shortcomings
- it's hard watching people lie about what they've accomplished, imposture and puff up, which they do to either self-soothe through uncertainty or because they believe lying is a shortcut to somewhere else
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