The best way to make the world a better place is to give a helping hand of ours to others. It is all about having a mind-set to improve beyond ourselves. Helping others might be the key to happiness for many. The act of helping someone, expecting nothing in return, makes us all the more selfless.

Well, here are 10 benefits of helping others.

• Helping others makes us feel good. It gives us a heightened sense of wellbeing.
• Helping others creates a sense of belonging. Hence, we feel like more connecting with others and the community.

• Helping others gives us more identity and character and shows the purpose of our life.
• Identifying the unlucky and giving our helping hand gets us to the right perspective in life.
• Our generosity and act of helping others is contagious. It will induce the same thought in many people who watch the same.
• Helping others induces selflessness, less stress and more life in us.
•  Helping others is a kind of activism which renews us through experience and insights.
• Helping others boosts our self-esteem and wellbeing.
• The act of helping fetches us a lot of friends from the society.
• Helping others enhances our positivity, outlook and attitude.

Story

        A man was driving his car, when he saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road. He saw that she needed help. So he stopped his Pontiac near her Mercedes and got out.

He smiled, while he was approaching her, still she was worried, as nobody had stopped for hours. Moreover, he did not look safe, as his appearance was so poor and shabby. He could see, how frightened she was, so he tried to calm her: „ I‘m here to help you, don‘t worry. My name is Bryan Anderson“.

The tire was flat, so he had to crawl under the car. While changing the tire, he got dirty and his hands were hurt.

When the job was done, she asked how much she owed him for his help. Bryan smiled. He said: „If you really want to pay me back, the next time you see someone, who needs help, give that person the needed assistance and think of me“.

At the same evening, the lady stopped by a small cafe. That place looked dingy. Then she saw a waitress, nearly eight months pregnant, wiping her wet hair with a towel. The waitress had a sweet friendly smile, although she had spent on her feet the whole day.

The lady wondered how someone, who has so little, can be so kind and giving to a stranger. Then she remembered Bryan.
The lady had finished her meal and paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress went to get change and when she came back, the lady was gone. She left a note on the napkin: „You don‘t own me anything. Somebody once helped me, just like now I‘m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, do not let this chain of love end with you“. The waitress found four more one hundred bills under the napkin.

That night the waitress came home earlier. She was thinking about the lady and the money she left. She was wondering, how the lady could know, how much she and her husband needed it, especially now, when the baby will soon arrive. She knew that her husband worried about that, so she was glad to tell him good news. Then she whispered, “Now everything will be all right, Bryan Anderson“.

 Activity

List out the number of people you help every day. Let these numbers grow day by day

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Quote

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”– Sally Koch

Takeaways

1. The best way to make the world a better place is to give a helping hand of ours to others.
2.  Enjoy the 10 benefits of helping others.