Service and Helping Others and Three Reasons People are Hesitant to Help

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There are a lot of people who are suffering, and there are very few people who are willing to encourage them even though they know everything about their situation. However, they still do nothing to give them support and show their kindness to them. Therefore, everyone needs inspiration sometimes in their lives. However, most of the time there are a lot of people who are in need of help from others around them, but do not get support for various reasons. In the memoir Hope’s Boy, Andrew Bridge explains he is a child who works through a foster care system who obviously needs a lot of help by those; however, he is ignored by so many people around him. We can see in the book that in some cases people do not understand or agree with the life styles of Andy’s biological mother, as what he thinks is living would be like with different styles of others. In addition, I also could see from my own experiences in India sometimes people are afraid of helping others; they might be insulted by those who they are trying to help. The limited resources that prevent Andy’s mother from helping Andy are because of her illness. Andy’s mother would love to take care of Andy, but, she do not have resources to take care of him, the part of the reasons she do not have resources is because she do not have the mental ability to hold the stable job to take care of Andy with the everyday needs. While there are many reasons that people might not help, the main reasons seems to be that keep people from helping others are the different styles of living from each other, the fear of getting in trouble for helping others that they do not want help, and the limited resources, when help is needed.
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...fe without any help from others. The different living level of standards in the society, the afraid of getting in problems by those who we are trying to help, and the finite resources that could be some of the three various reasons that could prevent some people from helping others around them who are in need. There are many people who want to help others, but the things that prevent them for not helping others is the less confidence in themselves and the anxiety of getting in trouble. However, we need to provide help to others because helping other people makes us feel better about ourselves emotionally and physically. Therefore, it also helps in emerging the society and constructing it develops in a massive way. Helping others gives a better understanding of other’s society and give us a chance to use our talents, and experience to assist someone who is in needs.

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