What is the purpose of helping somebody?

Hi dawn, Animals do not help each other as they are self reliant to help themselves. Similarly if we look from that perspective we too the human do not need help from others for the only difference between an animal and man is man can communicate through language and can utilize his/her brain ( no matter in right way or the opposite ) That human beings are getting crippled only because of expectation and selfishness. What we can do ourselves we get them done. No doubt you have lots of wealth but that should not mean that you do not do your thing yourself. Now we help others and this is an outer factor. Since we are accustomed to certain actions we do help people just the way that I am able or in a better situation not for the bah bah or acknoledgement later from the one helped.

Hi ya dawny I think with me it is a combination of things, like if an old lady needs help to get a tin of beans off the top shelf in a supermarket then someone should help her and if that happens to me because I am passing by then so be it. Sure it makes me feel good but I don't think that is my first thought. I help my friends sometimes because they need my help and do it without obligation apart from the fact they are my friends and I do it without giving it a thought!

This is a question I have never considered, and now, having been asked, can't find a reply. I don't know why. I think it is an automatic response, not a response to an inward feeling. I don't recall ever thinking, "WHY should I?" Surely, it is simply the heart of one person in reply to the cry of another? It is merely the natural response - no questions asked, no reason given, no analysis necessary. Sorry, but that is all I can come up with.

I help because I want to. In fact, I've turned down to help someone before because I was really not able to. What I do realize is if one does feel sincere, then should he/she help someone or others in that needy situation.

And it's not even Friday! well, it is Friday but Dawn posted this on Thursday! Thinks: This one is hard and I must have a cup of coffee before I even think of answering it. Ah well,. Let's try as I am into the post. Everyone gets a sense of satisfaction when they are able to assist someone but apart from this feeling of well being it is a basic human need to help others less fortunate or who are hurting in some way. Help can be just listening. Of course, I feel, as a Christian, that we should see the Jesus in everyone and help that person as He commanded us to do. "If you do it to the least of us than you are doing it for me" etc - or words to that effect. Compassion is in most of us - not all - it is a quality to be developed as He has so much compassion for us and forgives us so readily when we mess up. Lecture over. Compasson does not mean being coindescending and neither should we expect grateful thanks forever and forever. We dhelp necause we want and need to help. Thanks are not necessaRY AND NEITHER IS GRATITUDE FROM THE RECIPIENT. Thinks: Still need that coffee.

hi dawnald, seems you do have so many new discussions today and you are so intelligent to make them so easy on a span of less than one hour i think.. well about your topic, on my opinion i love helping others, and i feel so happy after helping them.. not an obligation of course, but i think it's on my conscience.. i help a lot of people and i am happy to do that always.. janebeth.

Depends on what it is......if someone needs me to hold a door open for them....I would say it's because they need help.....so it's just kind of a natural instinct to hold the door......if it's with something emotional....I am a good listener....and I do just because......if they need money....don't as me for help unless you are fallling down starving....though I give to charities...I have worked hard for what I have.....but I have only on a few ocassions felt obligated and that is when the situation has something to do with family.

If I offer help it's because I can. I share what I have to offer. Sometimes I offer it because I think theyneed help and then find out they didn't and that is often confusing. Some people, quite rightly, want to find out through their own trial and error and prefer not to be helped. Others seem to be struggling and that upsets me so Ioffer any help I can just to share and make things easier for them. I don't thnk about it though, it is just something natural. I don't feel obliged either, I just feel like helping. Should I feel obliged or should I think before offering my help or does that depend on the situation and the help that is needed (and who is it ti decide what sort of help will be the best, if any?) It gets complicated the more I think about it

hi dawn when I help someone its because they needed somehelp right now andI was there so I helped them. It did make me feel good that I was able to help as i have been helped so many times and yes I do feel obligated.we are all one family when it comes down to it, the family of human beings, if we do not help each other who will? The main purpose of helping anyone is b ecause they are in need and you might be the closest one there. we are all obligated if we only chose to see that, we all share one thing, life.

hi dawnald. for me, helping somebody makes me feel good. it is spontaneous, as prinzcy up there had said. but as long as i can, it gives me comfort to lend a hand. neil

hi dawnald, as a human beings we have help each other and other people who need help,animals are giving feeding milk to other animals,when animals are doing,why can't we do the best,have a nice day

I have to confess this that whenever I help someone I feel that God will give me a gift in my life. I always have this greed in my mind that since I have helped someone, other people must also help me a lot. That is a truth , my friend.

There are several reasons that I choose to offer help to someone. The first one is that I like to think that if I was in a similar situation and that I needed help there would be someone that would help me out. The second is that when I help someone it makes me feel good for the rest of the day and beyond. The third reason that I help people is because I do feel obligated to a certain degree, I was brought up in such a way that we were expected to help someone if it was within reason so that is a trait that has never left me in my life.

I lend a hand only to those I think who needs it. If turned down I simply apologize and offer a smile. I only offer what I can give and not what I don't have. You cannot help a person asking for a bread if you don't have a bread instead I share what I know to help him to have a bread. It feels good to help people but it doesn't mean I want to help because I want to feel good. Helping others is my way of thanking those people who also had helped me. Just paying it forward

To fill the need of the one asking, we do it because because we love doing it.Yes, there are times that it feels good doing it, but you feel bad when they obligate you.The main purpose is a simple act of thanking God that you are better of than them.

I help when I can and yes...I get something in return...it makes me feel good. If I don't feel good about it...i just don't do it.

I was brought up to always lend a helping hand to others when it was obvious that the help would make the task easier. It shows that I care about other people. In a civilized society such displays of caring is needed as glue to hold us together as a society. But, as noted in the previous responses, you must be careful of the type of help offered. Helping you child with his homework means to help them understand what they need to learn, not doing the homework yourself. Picking up a dropped item for someone confined to a wheelchair is helping, as is holding a door open for them, but not pushing their wheelchair. They need to keep up what upper arm and chest strength they have. (OK, maybe helping push the wheelchair uphill would be appropriate). I was taught to be polite always. Lending a helping hand is one way of being polite.

I am a person who offers my help if it is not a difficult process to help somebody. Truley speaking, I don't help somebody if it takes too much pain or if I feel that the person I am going to help takes it as an advantage and will keep asks me help. I don't expect the help in return when I help somebody. Man is social anmial and he can't always survive without help.

Its just a matter of helping someone in need at that very moment. Its surely not because you feel obligated. Its just a natural thing for me to help someone when they need assistance. I alway believed "do onto others as you wish them to do too you." You would hope if you yourself needed help one day someone would be there for you too. Its being good to your fellow man. Its a shame that alot of people don't live by this rule. If they did the world would be a better place to live.

theres no purpose of helping someone. its your voluntary or own will to do. sometimes theres a need that you obliged to give, like for your family sake. it might be obligatory since your one of the family and one family supposed to act as one and as one of them you need to help them. but then, you will feel good and happy if you see that everything seems fine. though sometimes you can't really avoid those specially if your into position to help them like you have better job and etc. but then, you must be thankful, coz if someone ask for help from you, it means you are better than them and that you are quite lucky than them in such a way.