Advice From Somewhere

I know it's been forever since I last blogged...school gets crazy this time of year.

I found this website https://www.msu.edu/~jerrymc/humor/advice.html while surfing the web and I decided to blog about the importance about each of the pieces of advice given in this page. It seemed like it would be fun and interesting.

So, number one: Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

This is nice to try if you never have before. You begin to see how the little actions you choose to do for others when they don't expect it makes them happy as well as yourself. All you need to do is hold a door for someone, clean something for someone, just give a little extra than you may normally. All of the little things you do add up and help you and others become happier as people. This is essentially just being charitable.

And as the advice says do it cheerfully. No one is helped if you volunteer at a soup kitchen and you're rude to everyone and just don't want to be there. You will probably just end up upsetting others and being miserable yourself. And what fun is that? Doing service and being charitable can be turned into lots of fun if you do it with a lot of friends or just do it with a smile on your face.

This can be turned around in another way also to say don't be too cheerful, either. And I don't mean don't be happy that you're helping others, but don't be too proud of it. The key to being charitable is helping others quietly and getting the justification in yourself knowing others are happy without the acknowledgement that you were the one to do it. When you make sure everyone knows you helped then you are getting benefit out of it as well and it has stopped being for others, but more for yourself.

I don't want to end up sounding preachy because that's not what I'm trying to do. I'm not sitting here telling you that you need to do service and help people. I am merely stating my opinion on the matter, and I feel that the world would be a much better place if people were less selfish.

Anyway, I will hope to be more regular with the blogs..school is winding down so I should have A LOT more time. YAY SUMMER (:

PS. This song has become my new jam (: