2/15/12

I swear this class is making me feel that there is no act that one can do without being selfish. I learned in this weeks reading about altruism, doing something nice for someone else  but allowing yourself to feel nice about it in some way. But how nice are we allowed to feel until we are being selfish? How do you even measure the way you feel? Like if you feel more than half percent good about what you are doing than its not okay. Well what if you feel more happy about how you feel than what you are doing, can you measure that? That got me so confused thinking about how we feel bad about yourself by how we measure how we should be feeling and what we actually feel. I disagree when thinking that we shouldn't be allowed to feel some type of happiness for ourselves when doing a good deed for someone else because if we didn't feel any type of happiness than what would motivate us to what to help others? Yes I wish we lived in a world where we just wanted to help those in need but in reality that isn't the case. We help others because we feel that is what we should be doing and when we do it we feel good because not everyone would sacrifice their time for someone else.