Making people happy makes me happy

Making people happy makes me happy.

I love humanity! Each person's joy is joy to me. Let's be honest, though: I can't spend all my time bringing bliss to others—I have work to do and bills to pay.

I'm sure you, too, want to make other people's days, you with your to-do lists and your life-killing job and that "will work for food" expression on your face. That's why I'm here - to offer you my story of what made me feel really happy recently.

To be honest, I wasn't always a big fan of people. I tend to avoid them in the past. It was not because I hated humans, social gatherings or human interaction (though that is what I would constantly tell myself), but I didn't approach people because I didn't know how. I felt I had nothing to offer and I was scared to come closer and have the light shin up on me. When I would go to the bank, I would use the ATM and avoid the bank-tellers. When the self-serve cashes appeared in the grocery stores, I was extremely happy because I wouldn't have to deal with the cashiers again.

Even though technology makes life easier, it took away a part of me. And it wasn't even the technologies fault. I was making the effort to move away from people and I would later make excuses like: "well, these people don't want to be my friends so I will not make an effort to be their friend." It sounds silly and immature, I know.

It reminds me of the story of a man sitting on a cold night in front of a fire holding firewood tightly against his body yelling at the fire: "when you give me warmth, then I will throw more wood."

It didn't occur to me, at first, if I wanted something from the universe, I had to give that very same thing first. The same goes with everything else in life. If I wanted love, I had to give love first. If I wanted respect, or someones time and attention, or money, I had to give it first. And it would come back in buckets.

Just as well as this work with all the positive things in life, it works with all the negative things as well.

The Golden Rule or law of reciprocity is the principle of treating others as one would wish to be treated. It is a maxim of altruism seen in many human religions and human cultures. The maxim may appear as either a positive or negative injunction governing conduct.

One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. What you wish upon others, you wish upon yourself.