Community service

One does stuff for the benefit of community, whatever it costs!

yes some have a balance on what it is taking to do comunity service but in general.

Its said don't be selfish make life better place for all and contribution in that cause is divine, don't wanna name people here but there are people who go all out for betterment of humanity, failing to fulfill thier personal commitments.

Doing stuff for the benefit of the whole community / human race at the expense of personal commitments morally correct?

Originally posted by: raj5000

One does stuff for the benefit of community, whatever it costs!

yes some have a balance on what it is taking to do comunity service but in general.

Its said don't be selfish make life better place for all and contribution in that cause is divine, don't wanna name people here but there are people who go all out for betterment of humanity, failing to fulfill thier personal commitments.

Doing stuff for the benefit of the whole community / human race at the expense of personal commitments morally correct?

Depends on how much the community has contributed to your survival.. After all using big words like the "community service" eventually leads to some smaller actions directed to a bunch of individuals or so....

Originally posted by: qwertyesque

Depends on how much the community has contributed to your survival.. After all using big words like the "community service" eventually leads to some smaller actions directed to a bunch of individuals or so....

good point qwerty, but again, benefitting few is better than benefitting none.

i support community service and try do something or the other everywhere i go. it does not always drain a person or demand a person to make big sacrifices. i look fwd to doing that only after i retire 😊.. got to be a bit selfish until then.

raj, if the community work affects ones near and dear DEEPLY (given they are not bein unreasonable 😳) , then i don't feel too positive about community service.

Family responsibilities matter too. I feel that only the greater of the greatest have made such sacrifices for our freedom and such and i wud not call them immoral. 😳

Anshu, I think we all do owe to give back to society. This world do exist because there are many selfless people who work for betterment of society. Now-a-days people are becoming more selfish and we do already see the imapct on society. There is a saying 'You need a village to raise your kids' so basically society does play a big role in eveyone's life. If we do not take care of it today we will pay for it tomorrow.

Jahan tak sawal hai sacrificing your personal commitments, so anshu it depends on personality. Most of the time the people do it as they can feel other people pain so it becomes obvious for them to sacrifice some of their personal commitments. I do agree that's not the right thing to do as they need to take care of themselves too. par aisa hota nahin ....

I do believe firmly that we owe to society & need to give back to it. We may not see the results of it today but they will always be there. I have another belief 'apne liye to jaanwar bhi jeeta hai to sirf apne liye jiye to kya jiye. jaanwar aur insan mein kuch to farak hona chahiye' The happiness you see doing things for the people, which are not your primary responsibility, gives oneself so much happiness one can't explain. This only can be felt by doing it....

If you take care of just yourself there is only one person to take care of your self, but if you take care of people then there are many people to think about you and yourself. You succeed as people want you to succeed.

You could do things in many manners not just as we define in US. We can help people just by guiding, may help monitary, may help by giving time or may be just by being there when they need us.....

These are just my POV. I do not mean to hurt anyone so I am in advance sorry if hurted anyone's sentiment by me saying anything above which I did.

that's so true tania.... good article....👏

Originally posted by: tania.ganguly

"A lot of times we think that happiness comes about
because you get things for yourself," said Richard
Ryan, a psychologist at the University of Rochester,
who was not involved in the study. "But it turns out
that in a paradoxical way, giving gets you more, and I
think that's an important message in a culture that's
pretty often getting messages to the opposite effect."

Originally posted by: qwertyesque

Depends on how much the community has contributed to your survival.. After all using big words like the "community service" eventually leads to some smaller actions directed to a bunch of individuals or so....

Agreed Qwerts... Good actions don't always follow good intentions...

If it is as simple as feeding the hungry or spending some time at the hospital with sick few hours a month then it ok but once one starts into "protecting" " or "fighting" for others in general and not on one one basis then it is a self serving action to a certain extent..

Originally posted by: lighthouse

Agreed Qwerts... Good actions don't always follow good intentions...

If it is as simple as feeding the hungry or spending some time at the hospital with sick few hours a month then it ok but once one starts into "protecting" " or "fighting" for others in general and not on one one basis then it is a self serving action to a certain extent..

Yeah and here its a form of punishment for crime isnt it? So why would punish himself/herself without a good reason?😆