"Virtue - You don't need a reason to help people."
- Zidane Tribal
WELL that is probably my biggest nerd moment right there...
Anyways, something about our discussion on Tuesday bugged me. There was a small part of our discussion I believe where we questioned why it is we perform virtuous acts. Is the ONLY reason we all perform(or try too)good deeds is because we all expect something in return? I don't know about you, but I actually live by that quote I wrote just above this post. I always figured that I'm not going to be in this world for very long, and since every day finds new ways to kill a man...I figured, "why not spend what little time I have in this world doing good and making the lives of others better, even if it means putting their needs before mine?"
But, what's so conflicting is that I often question whether or not I REALLY am a good person. Like, do I REALLY want to do good and help others because I'm a genuinely good person...? Or do I REALLY expect something in return for these deeds deep down? If so, does that make me a selfish person...? Yeah, I know, I'm only Human, but it still perplexes me...
----Commented on Lane's post.
Ah the eternal question of motive. In the end, do even we truly know what our motives are? I agree with you about this being a very confilcting question. In the end, it seems impossible to really know the answer, but the fact that we question seems to lead me to beleive that we are becoming better people when we analyize our intended motives.
ReplyDeleteI agree with FrostedMidnight. We won't ever really know if we're doing good acts because we are genuinely good people. I guess we just have to hope that we're doing good deeds because we want to help others and not ourselves. Although I do have to admit that sometimes I'll go out of my way to help my mom with something just so she'll let me do something or give me money haha.
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