Nov 02 2009
Helping Others is also Helps Yourself
Help and helping others belong to the behavior of pro-social or, more specifically referred to as altruism. This behavior means that the various behaviors that aim to benefit others and not yourself.
Pro-social behavior usually occurs when a person realize that there are others who have difficulty. As social creatures, humans have been trained to comply with a set of rules and norms in living his life. One thing that has been taught to most people since childhood was the habit of helping others.
This is important for harmony in the group dynamics. If one or several group members have a problem, then the possibility of harmony is threatened. This habit will be ingrained in people and will appear automatically when viewing others in need. In addition, human needs and abilities working together to help each other when faced with a problem.
The main factor that determines whether someone will help others or not is whether the behavior will harm him or not. If the loss is real seem, humans will tend to withdraw his intention to help. It is possible that could explain why many Indonesian people are “hobbies” watching a fire or an accident or a stalled vehicle on the road.
Besides possible because of lack of entertainment, most Indonesian people do not want to risk having the hassle to help others. Most of them are not man “hit sap”, for example, must make a report to the police, made a statement, ditanyatanya, and others.
Helping other people can nurturing responsibility
So, what’s the point to help others? One of the most obvious use of another person is that the behavior makes the perpetrator feel better. Because of the social responsibility that is embedded within most people, helping others feel “relief” because it means they have run some of their responsibilities as members of society.
If there is a close relative of the child in the hospital, to visit and donate some money for them will make their people have done something. There is a feeling useful and valued when someone managed to help those in need.
Help others who have different backgrounds with us can also help us learn and understand new things. Another benefit of helping others is a challenge for themselves, especially if the circumstances that must be faced when it was relatively difficult.
Is helping others is always to give goods or money? Current activities can be done to help in various forms.
There’s a good movie about helping behavior, which title is “Pay It Forward”. The core of the film could be a good lesson for us. While there are other people who helped you, do not respond directly to that person, but firstly, help someone else. Thus, the good will not stop the two men alone, but will continue and spread to more people.
