Helping Others - Positive Thoughts | The Galactic Free Press

Sometimes we get so caught up in our own lives that we stop thinking about the needs of others and what we might be able to do to help them. Life has a tendency to catch us up in it, to make us focus so much on our own issues that we even forget that other people have issues, too. And as time goes on, it seems that the other people in our lives are less and less likely to ask for help--after all, our culture values independence over almost everything else, and if we have to ask for help, it seems like a major failure for us. We have to get used to the idea that very often, we need to recognize when someone needs help first, and then offer that help sincerely and without expectation of anything in return if we want to make our help as valuable as it can be.