Helpfulness is an attitude of life, typical of those who live for the needs of others. Authentic service is cheerful, magnanimous, selfless, nothing is expected in return.
The value of being helpful is feeling the love and willingness to help others when they need us, to help those who request it. Being a helpful person, thinking about others and their well-being, and more than that, is coming up with ways to help them be happy and motivate them to achieve their dreams.
Helpful people only have the interest of feeling good with others and especially with themselves, knowing that they are giving what they have, to cause smiles and well-being in those around them.
Although it is good to help our neighbor, help and pay attention, it should not fall into a servile attitude where the dignity of the servant is deteriorated, prioritizing the desires of others over their own and devaluing themselves before others. The helpful individual does not like to place himself in a superior, paternalistic or arrogant position of being superior, but he does so from his humble condition of human being who feels empathy for others and for that reason shows solidarity and cooperation.
Being useful is "realizing", it is being there when someone needs something; It is not to isolate oneself but to see if I can help someone. Being useful is more than a set of social norms, it is an attitude of life; it is the attitude of Christ who "did not come to be served but to serve." Service not only leads us to accept each one, but it leads us to commitment to others. We see this in Jesus Christ himself. Because he was in constant "heart strain" for the service, he did not have time for himself (example of the Samaritan woman). This service attitude leads us to commit ourselves to the needs of others and the team, leads us to seek solutions and we get into trouble for the other.
Helpfulness allows us to attract the good into our lives, overflowing with satisfaction and joy to make our interpersonal relationships strong.
