Whats the most selfless thing you've ever done?

Blub2k4 wrote:

By putting it down here, that is to count it as selfless that means you are claiming it as a good deed, which removes the selfless part so to post the acts here becomes selfish, something like the friends scenario.
Very few actions are selfless.
This thread strikes me as an attempt as ego massaging, not something that "selfless" people tend to do.

Sorry blub ( I always seem to have a different opinion to you! I don't mean to) ... but the original act / good deed remains unselfish, it's the act of talking about it / writing it down that becomes selfish.

For example ... If I stand up on the bus to let an elderly lady sit down, just so I can tell people how chivalours (spelling?) I am, then that's a selfish act, and so is the boasting about it later.

However ... If I stand up for an elderly lady on the bus, because I think she needs the seat more than I do, then that is an unselfish act, and remains unselfish if I tell people about it later. The telling about it later is the selfish act.

or something

If the question was about selfless acts you had experienced then you could recount about somebody you saw/knew who did something.

i was 8 1/2 months pregnant, and it was a very hot june. was walking with a load of shopping bags where so heavy. and i seen a nun from my primary school strugling with very large water bottles she was going to the grave yard to water the plants because it was such a hot day, so with my own burdens of shopping and baby in belly. i help this old lady (whom used to beat me with a wooden ruler) and carried the watter battles up and helped her water every grave that had a living plant on it!!!

then she gave me loads because i wasn't married and what a sin thist was ect ect... blah de Fing blah

cajun_tiger wrote:

thats bull...

how does an offer

"do you need a hand"

come across as that???

You'd be very surprised.
People dont trust people in cities anymore.

bringitdown wrote:

Whooooshhhh - have I travelled back in time?

Would you guys help a man struggling with a pram, or can you see the POINT?

/edit, I am of course, referring to a father struggling to get his childs pram on board a bus etc. and not other types of pram struggling....

Of course I see the point, I have done a lot of social work, help people with prams, get up off my seat when an old or pregnant person is there, thing is that I also see the irony....dont you?

Praetorian wrote:

When I was about 11 I saw a man drop a wad of notes, could have been a couple of grand. I ran after him and gave him the money, he was delighted and gave me £20; I think my pocket money back then was about £1.50 a week so it was great.

I try to be a nice person in general though, but I've never done anything like that Uberwolf. Fair play man

My cousin did the same once, there was a guy ran past him in Crumlin and dropped a wad of cash, he picked it up and handed it back to him.
He spent his day in the Bridewell for his troubles, the geezer was running from an armed post-office robbery
was funny at the time.

i've often offered a helping hand when someone has trouble either crossing roads getting on buses or what ever, but the thing is out my way 25a/66/a/b/67/a ive never been helped