ALTRUISM – a gift of unconditional giving.
We spend our lives teaching our children to be kind without realising how much we actually practise it.
Helping someone is a basic trait that most or all of us inherit. We naturally tend to help an old cross a road or a teach a child to simply share their lunchbox with a friend. Kids can exhibit it at a tender age of even 9 months to 1 year. This reminds me of the kind deeds I did while I was a kid and obviously practise even now. I seldom can be rude to others or hurt them intentionally/unintentionally. Well, coming to the study of the brain and behavioural patterns, it could be debateable and controversial whether and if altruism truly exists. Do we not relate ego to our selfish needs first? Of course it’s natural. Kindness, Comforting, Loving, Giving are not mathematical figures that can be calculated.
“People who tend to unconditionally give and forgive have a power to lift others even though they have to go through hurt and not mention it to them ever. It is just their willingness and innate nature to do so.”
Would you be surprised or baffled at the thought of helping/lifting someone else even if it would be “detrimental” to your own self? Would you do things for others so selflessly? This is so therapeutical. We all wish to be loved and receive compassion. Imagine you being dumped or left alone? Or You hurt someone. (Lift them up.) Well, there is a magic touch in altruism. It reflects your inner self. Ultimately it does go in similar lines with empathy.
“The reflection that one portrays to another through the light of altruism is commendable and walking on the path of selfless deeds can help one eliminate the walls of darkness that a destructive selfish self had inhibited….”