Good Deeds

Anyone who knows me, knows I'm a quote-whore. My pinterest is full of quotes and inspo and motivational pics. I can't get enough.  But I read a quote the other day and thought it was a great, non-cliché one to share:

“Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience; the best among us do their greatest work when no one is present to bear witness.”

I thought this was really awesome and thought-provoking.  So many people will do a good deed or help someone out,only to then post about it all over Facebook, Snapchat their friends or tell everyone back at the office within a 50m radius. Now don't get me wrong - sharing that warm fuzzy feeling you get after helping someone feels great and you wanna share it and let it out into the world like glitter and fairy dust.  But isn't it nice to just keep that moment to yourself, blissfully positive and unaffected by the opinion or thoughts of other people? Especially that One-Upper that everyone has in their lives - they always have to one-up your story with something they did but 10 times better.

It seems that the desire for self-gratification overpowers just the general want to help out fellow humans less fortunate than us. Since when did we need to have bragging rights in circumstances where we just help out another person like we're supposed to?! It makes me wild the hunger and drive for posting and publicising every tiny aspect of our lives instead of just knowing in ourselves that we did a good job, helped someone.

I hope that this post reaches even a handful of people and that we stop posting and publicising good deeds and just enjoy the warm gooey feeling in ourselves, silently and deliciously, without telling a single other soul.
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