What Makes You More Happy, Helping Someone In Need Or Getting Money?

Helping someone. (And I’m not just saying this! After deep thought, it is very true!)
The older I get, the less I like material objects. In fact, I cleaned out half the stuff in my room over break and donated it, and I feel like I still have way too much. I’d be fine with the bare essentials – food, clothes, shelter, hygiene, etc. Otherwise pencil and paper, books, and the internet as an endless source of information. But maybe not even the internet – sometimes discovering things for yourself is better.
Plus, whenever I have something really great for myself, I feel guilty if I don’t at least share it with anyone.
I might want some things, but it’s definitely not a TV or a car. Most of the things I want are non-material, mostly achieving things, learning and making myself a better person.
So definitely helping someone over ‘money’. (Also, ‘money’ and unecessary material things are a source of so much needless discord.) And helping someone gives you a feeling that lasts much longer than any material object and is infinitely more precious.

If i think the person in need is useful, in long term, i woud be helping him/her.
If i think he/she will be useless in long term i would pick “getting money”.
Being satisfied with helping others gets you nowhere..But you still feel good..For what reason, may i ask? Evolution suggests you do things, because it helps your OWN survival in some way, which reveals our innate selfishness, it also suggests that qualities(like friendship/love) we admire are not really “pure” in itself as it is “fired up” by selfish motives. I think these qualities are overrated and i think these people are deluded.
Misfirings, sort of like raising a cuckooo’s little birdie.

Could I get money for helping people?
I think I’d prefer money – I know it’s meant to be great helping people, but in real life it usually ends up being really stressful and you have to constantly placate and reassure them that it’s not CHARITY, you really WANT to help them.
It’s the emotional strain that’s the hardest. I think that’s why so many people fantasize about helping people in secret so they don’t even know you are. (Like Santa).

I don’t really need any luxuries.
I have tried to help a lot of people, but I doubt that it ever changed anyone’s life. In fact, some of those people make a living out of getting people to help them. It kind of turned me off on wanting to keep doing it for awhile.

both.
i get easily bored with stuff and after the excitement wears off, i forget them easily.
helping other people, you won’t forget them and what you did and it’s some sort of personal achievement and also, you left a mark on their lives as well as they left yours.

Helping other people through kind deeds is much more rewarding than any money can buy. We were not born into this world with money, and we don’t leave with it either. The relationships we build with other people are very important and perhaps the most valuable treasure we get in life.

Maybe you had better ask that question of such people as doctors. They can help people, and may like having helped, but in most cases, they charge for the service!
The majority of people just want to help themselves. That’s the nature of mankind.

i’d give up everything i have a save a deserving persons life.

I think that we all get happy with getting money, but at the end of the day u get a lot more satisfaction out of helping someone in need. That happiness will last longer than just receiving money.

sSSSSSSSOUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSS…

Money. Got to have the money.
I’m just looking out for myself. Everybody does it, right?

money
so i could help people with it!!!!!!!!!!!