The Lady or the Tiger? :
I usually help my friends and benefit them rather than being selfish and doing stuffs that can benefit myself. I also have friends that take their benefits to help me. Back in America, I had a friend that was named Jin, he wasn’t really good with English at the time, but I help him when he has problems in his ESL classes. There was a time when we were doing a Biology project together, and I wanted some extra credit. But the problem was that we needed to do it on a certain date and turn it in on a certain time earlier than it was due to receive the full extra credit, and Jin had family dinners at the time. Of course, I expected that he’ll be eating at a very expensive restaurant and if we do our project he would miss all the exotic rich dishes. Also, it would be a disgrace to his family by not showing up at supper. I was expecting he would call me and say he couldn’t make it, but it turns out that he ended up on my front door saying, “ Alright, let’s do this.” He took away his fun time for a boring project time with his friend? See? I haven’t received this kind of friendship in two years.
I also helped Jin by taking away my own free time. I was supposed to compete in a video game in my town center, but Jin had a problem with his English homework and asked me to help him. I thought that if I don’t do this, he might be left alone to work and receive a bad percentage. I also thought that if I miss the video game session, I would not receive my hundred- dollar bill. But in the end, I decided that leaving Jin alone doing the work would also waste his time, therefore, I helped him for an hour and he thanked me.
I think that doing these things are the right things, because if you take away your joy and think selflessly, and help others, you will gain that joy back, because you just helped someone else.
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