Helping is very important in human life. Helping reveals a person’s humility and his values. Helping gives a person ultimate happiness. When we help someone, we feel happy. Perhaps we do not know that we too may have to take help from someone someday. We do not think that when someone asks us for help and we refuse, how bad he must feel? In life, the process of giving and receiving continues continuously and at many levels. The circle of those who help keeps forming and growing by holding hands from one person to another, from another to the third. When needed, sometimes we get help from those whom we help, and sometimes the hands that help are from others.

One day I was going to the market and I saw a small boy walking barefoot in the sun carrying a bundle weighing 8-10 kg on his head. I stopped him and asked him where he was going barefoot and what was in the bundle. The boy said that his mother was ill and his father was not there. There was some rice in his bundle which he had bought from the market. But that small child was unable to carry the load. That is why his voice became tearful. I put the children in my car and went to drop him home. I saw that his mother was lying on a cot in the hut. On seeing me, his mother got scared thinking that maybe her child had done something wrong. She started looking at her children with wide eyes, as if asking them why this woman had come with them. Then the child told his mother that he was unable to carry the load, so this aunty had helped him. The woman was telling her child to at least give them water.  But I made an excuse of urgent work, gave some money to his mother and went away from there. I had helped that child a little. But even today I sometimes meet that child on the road. And he starts smiling as soon as he sees me. Even today, whenever I meet that child, I do not forget to give him some money. His smile helps me forget my thousands of sorrows.

Sometimes we accidentally do such good deeds which we have never even thought of. But do you know that good deeds cannot be done without God’s help.We are able to help someone only when the time comes to repay the debt of our past life.  Sometimes we cannot help anyone even if we want to. And sometimes we unknowingly do something that brings a smile on someone’s face. It is said that wise people have two hands. One hand to help themselves and the other to help others. And this wisdom comes when we understand that helping others is also good for us. Not only are the needs of others fulfilled, but there is no shortage for us too. So help others. Not because it is a virtuous act. Not even out of fear that someday you may need the help of others. Help because it is good for you too. Helping is good for your own mental health. The mind gets that happiness and peace which is not available even with medicines and therapy. But never let this pride come to your mind that I helped someone. Rather think that I did not help anyone, God helped me. Because you do not know which birth’s debt you have paid.