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10 Reasons You Should Take Time Out Of Your Day To Help Others

"Make yourself feel better."

Molly Rose Cohen

Apr 03, 2018

University at Albany, SUNY Albany, NY

10 Reasons You Should Take Time Out Of Your Day To Help Others

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As I have been working for a non-profit where I help youths cope with problems they are facing, I have been feeling joy in helping others. This made me want to make a list of reasons to help others:

1. You can make the world a better place

There is so much bad going on in the world, why not try to spread some good?

2. Help someone smile

Help someone feel better; no one want's to feel sad. And smiling releases endorphins that feel awesome.

3. Set an example for others

Show others what helping can really do, and hopefully, they follow in your footsteps.

4. If you help others, you can set off a trend

If you start volunteering and tell your friends about it, maybe they will join in too!

5. You can change someone's life in a positive way

Help someone out of sadness is not only rewarding for the person but for yourself.

6. Kindness can go a long way

No one wants others to be mean to them; be kind always.

7. Helping makes you feel better

I know when I help make someone's day, my day gets better as well.

8. Helping takes up your time in a valuable way

If you got no plans for the day, why not volunteer somewhere, plant some flowers, even give someone a friendly call; the list is endless.

9. Helping can cause less harm to others

You could help people who want to not only harm themselves but others, which is remarkable.

10. Helping can help you leave a positive legacy

You could leave a positive impact on others to help change the world.

In the end, all we have is each other, so why not help?

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10 Reasons You Should Take Time Out Of Your Day To Help Others

"Make yourself feel better."

1. You can make the world a better place

2. Help someone smile

3. Set an example for others

4. If you help others, you can set off a trend

5. You can change someone's life in a positive way

6. Kindness can go a long way

7. Helping makes you feel better

8. Helping takes up your time in a valuable way

9. Helping can cause less harm to others

10. Helping can help you leave a positive legacy

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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