I'm still in education, but I volunteer for a local charity and I am training in counseling. I do these things because I want to be a useful person. "If I help just one other person, that's my job done!" is the kind of cliché I live my life by. It's fun working at the charity too. It makes me feel good to do those things, but I don't brag about it and am pretty sure I'm no better than anyone else. But I gotta filll my time so I might as well fill it with something productive.

It is a little selfish I suppose; I feel pretty guilty about everything a lot of the time! Being a "do-gooder" kind of relinquishes some of the guilt. If I walk past a Big Issue vendor without buying the magazine, I can't stop thinking about it. My motives are not 100% selfless unfortunately! But I think that is a good thing, in some ways.