I'm not sure if you would classify me as a "do gooder" or not but some people, the people who see me every day do. I try to be kind to everyone, I try to put everyone before myself and I try to live the best I can. This means no swearing (I think it makes me sound ignorant anyways) and no negative words as well, I cut out all words in my vocabulary that are negative. Well I am trying to at least.

I have always been the one to put others before myself though, going beyond just the normal proper speech and occassional charity work. I have gone so far as to break up with a boyfriend of mine simply because my friend told me she wanted to date him, then I ended up setting them up together a week later. I've been like this since grade school.

People call me a pushover and things like that, I've been called an idiot on numerous occassions when asked questions like what I would do with a million dollars. My answer is always to donate about 75% to abused children, set up college for my daughter and buy us a small house and car. If that were to ever happen, I would do just that. For some reason other people, people who don't understand me, often don't get it and call me pretty harsh names for it, strange is it not? That common decensy is looked at as idiocy?

I'm not sure if I'm answering your question or not, I actually ask this a lot but from the opposite side of the fense, I ask non stop why everyone is so cruel and so selfish and no one seems to be as giving or sincere anymore. (Not literally everyone of course)

I think though when it comes down to it, it realy is just who deep down has the purest heart. Some people are born with the desire to help others, with the knowledge and understanding that if it weren't for them the world would no longer exist. At least in the way I feel about my life is that I was born to make a difference in this world, with my schizophrenia I'm not sure how much my importance in reality is to this world but to myself I feel exceptionally important in the change that the world needs.

Maybe this too is the way some people feel, I can only answer for myself though.