When I was a child, I remember being told that the greatest gift I could give to someone was to take care of someone else. I think that’s probably still the case, actually, but it’s not always easy to do.
That’s the concept of “take care of” in this quote from Edward J. Scott. In his book Sculpting the Soul: Finding Your Strengths and Fitting Them to Life, Scott recommends that we seek out opportunities to help people who are hurting. He says that if we can only help someone when they’re being bad, then we’re well served. He then describes the many ways that he helps people, from helping a homeless person to helping a pregnant homeless woman.
Its a great idea and I applaud Scott for the idea, but I think there are a lot of things that we can do that are better than just giving people a helping hand. As Scott says, we may not be able to help another person at the exact moment that they need us, but we can always help them by making them aware of the situations that they are in.
I don’t think anyone should ask for charity in the first place. A lot of times we think that we are able to go out of our way to help because we may think that we are doing something good and that we are being rewarded for it. But in reality, we are just being selfish. There are a lot of people out there that need help and we should be helping them too.
I am actually not the only person that has said this. The article on the top of this page on my website, is also one of the most frequent ones that lead people to our site. It goes even beyond just suggesting the need for charity. The article asks the reader to choose between the “good things” they are doing with their time and the “bad things” that they are doing with their time.
While the article is a great reminder of how much we as humans are selfish creatures, in my opinion, it is also an example of how selfishness can be a good thing. It is a reminder that the way we spend our time also affects the world around us. Our behaviors affect the world we make, even if we are not consciously aware of it.
At least one of the good things the article says doesn’t come from me. In fact, the article suggests that the bad things that we do are just as bad as the good things we do. While the article is a great reminder of how much we are selfish creatures, in my opinion, it is also an example of how selfishness can be a good thing.
I’m not saying that what we do has no effect on the world or that we should not be selfish. We can be very good at being selfish. We just have to be aware that this means we are affecting the world around us.
We are selfish creatures. We are also animals. We are humans. We are social animals. We have needs. We have desires. We act selfishly because our instincts are good. But we are good people, and human beings are supposed to act selfishly.
We are also animals. We are also humans. We are social animals. We have needs. We have desires. We act selfishly because our instincts are good. But we are good people, and human beings are supposed to act selfishly.
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