helping others

I keep turning to this topic: Helping others.

In the past I was very selfish. I thought of myself and put my priorities up in the list.
I improved, although I can hardly say that I fully changed.

It would be foolish of me to think that I’m a better person now. I’m good, yes, I make good deeds, yes, but I still have that lingering feeling that helping myself is better than helping others.

Don’t misunderstand me, I believe it is really important to help yourself first, to love yourself first, to understand that without yourself you’ll be nowhere.

We are the the ground where our life is built upon.
That ground, though, needs some more seeds, some different seeds, like helping others.

We should dedicate time and effort to help people, time and effort to let them grow and outgrow us with no sense of competition.
I think this because the only way to create a better world is to improve our surroundings, but at the same time this action of helping others shouldn’t be solely moved by this selfish need (because it is selfish).

No, the will to help others should grow slowly as a small seed inside us, it should become a bonsai of actions we do every day.
One day it’ll be a small task, the next day a big action.
But it should be something we feel it belongs to our DNA, not because we believe something, not because we need something, but because we know it’s right.