When Helping Others Helps You

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Lynx

Lynx

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Ever notice when you help somebody you often wind up helping yourself too? (No I don't mean helping yourself to a slice of cake.)

A friend of mine has been thinking about upgrading her phone to a real genuine smartphone, but she had no idea where to start looking for what. All she knew was she wanted to ditch her home internet, get a smartphone with a wifi hotspot, and she wanted a prepaid package. Tech stuff happens to be my forte so I started looking through prepaid packages and smartphones.

Hmm... it USED to be my forte. Seems there was some stuff I didn't know about. I found out the old package I am using is outmoded by about $20 or 20 gigabytes per month, depending on whether I want to get the current package at my price point or drop down to a lower price. Basically I could be getting all I need at a much lower price. Or I could be getting something insanely better for about the same price I'm currently paying.

I also found a phone that I plan to buy for myself. I just never knew before that they made one like that, until I looked through some phones for a friend. (And then my friend wanted to pay me for helping her. :rolleyes: I'm a nerd, this is what I do for fun.)

So how about y'all. Have you guys ever helped somebody, and wound up benefiting from it yourselves?
 
tourist

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Maybe she put your phone number into her new phone. Perhaps she will call you later to thank you.
 
Lynx

Lynx

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She hasn't got it yet, she was just gathering information... much like I do when I first think "Hey maybe I should do this." But when she does get the phone I'll walk her through address book migration so she won't have to manually copy all the addresses one at a time into the new phone.
 
seoulsearch

seoulsearch

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"When Helping Others Helps You"

I would love to be able to address the original topic... but I don't help people. :p:cool::rolleyes:;)
 
Pipp

Pipp

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seoulsearch said:
"When Helping Others Helps You"

I would love to be able to address the original topic... but I don't help people. :p:cool::rolleyes:;)
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LIES! You've been my therapist for like 2 years now :p
Kidding , but I do recall you being very helpful to me a time or two or three. :)
 
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toinena

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seoulsearch said:
"When Helping Others Helps You"

I would love to be able to address the original topic... but I don't help people. :p:cool::rolleyes:;)
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Well. For your information you have helped me tremendously to get my joy and strength back. Sorry to break your illusions, but you have a servants heart longing to get out. ;-)
 
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toinena

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My life is pointless if I can't help others. Being important in other people's life even only as a teacher or tutor is what pulls me out of my self pity and puts life into perspective. Pure selfish therapy to be selfless in other words.

I always feel delighted to help others. BUT. Not when they put it like "You don't mind, do you, if I come with three other guests in addition to myself?" or "You don't mind, do you, to proof read my academic paper? BTW the paper has to be handed in before noon tomorrow." Yes. I do it. But I don't have a light heart doing so. Love is not present in my actions. Perhaps I should work on being more humble, or just practice my right to say no. It needs a lot of practice to be a nay-sayer, but I think I need to.
 
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