Being genuine
View(s):Have you ever wondered if you are helping others just for the sake of helping or to be praised by others? Or perhaps it is because we have heard the myth “we gain only if we give”? I am sure most people will disagree with what I just mentioned but that’s what most of us do knowingly or unknowingly.
For many years, I helped people and while I was doing it I felt like I was missing something; that’s when I realized my ‘good deeds’ were not genuine. I’m just one of the people I mentioned above. I had been helping others for my pride. Every time I helped someone I felt like “Okay, now I will get that thing I’ve been waiting for”. I had always expected something in return from the God I believe in or by any other means.
I couldn’t comprehend the fact that I had always expected something in return when I helped someone but that was disappointingly true! All the things I’ve done through this time started to flash back before me all of a sudden with a sense of guilt. I indeed knew that none of my deeds were genuine or committed. That was when I started to teach a poor student I knew for free. When I started teaching the child, I felt I was being forgiven for all the fake ‘good deeds’ I had done.
That was when I started actually helping others: not for the sake of it but with a heartfelt desire. That was when my whole life embraced volunteerism. It may be hard for us to grasp the idea of not getting anything in return even after working so hard. Yet at the end of the day, it is never a regret.
Even the most random person you meet – from the colleague you work with to the beggar you meet at the road – deserves our help but the key virtue is to be genuine in what we do. Be genuine in everything you do, the peace you have in your mind will be worth more than a fortune you make by helping for the sake of being fake!
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