Helping Others Help Me May 27, 2008

Joey Ball my neighbor says, “Help means to assist someone who needs assistance,” and his wife Karla says, “Help is to contribute from the kindness of your heart with no selfishness in mind.” Many people have different definitions for help, but what does the dictionary say.

“Help is to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.”

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I consider helping a selfish act. Why? Well first of all in class we are given an extra 30% boost in our assignment for helping others…which in return helps me. Do people really help from the kindness of their heart or are they hoping that one day that person might help me when they need it. I don’t know about them, but I know about myself. I help others hoping that in the future they might help me when I need it, if they don’t help you, you could be like, “I helped YOU!, why can’t you help me?” Just consider that while we explore how we can help the environment.

Why do we care about the earth, the environment, our well being on this planet. All because we want to live a long and luxurious life. Don’t we all? Of course we do…we all work together…”helping” each other to fulfill that dream of ours, that luxurious dream. Again and again we do the so called “help” thing to help ourself, to help ourself to have that luxurious dream come to a reality. Why do I help plant trees? So I don’t get deprived of oxygen. Why do I save water? So I don’t run out of water. Why do people consider this helping others…I don’t. I think its a loop, that when I help them in return that help comes back to me…helping others help me. Help is like a mutualism relationship where both of the species or in this case both of the parties benefit.

My idea for this blog is to help others with coming up with answers to current environmental issues, ideas to live a sustainable life, and other environmental related things such as moving towards renewable resources that we can work together to accomplish so I in the future can live that luxurious life along with you.

image source-”Helping Hand”-The Jungle Book

Intro To Zeeko’s Eco-Blog May 22, 2008

In this blog I am going to talk about what interests a high percentage of the population and what concerns us the most as consumers, the environment. How we can improve our lifestyles to benefit us and our environment for a longer and healthy life for the Earth and how to live sustainably. Offer ideas and solutions to problems that are revolving in current environmental issues and how we can reduce the usage of nonrenewable resources and increase the consumption of renewable resources and explore other ways for energy like solar and wind power-Green Power.

Writing this blog first of all seemed like a great chance for me to get my opinons out to the people on the issue that interested me the most, Environmental Science. What made me interested in this was taking an AP course which matured me to really think about the environment, to care about the environment, and teach others about the environment. So this blog is sort of a way I can help others help the environment, themselves, and me.

This is somewhat like a “journey” for me into the real world being a high school student. Learning and showing my prespective on issues that can change the world, not just only for me, but everyone else. What makes this blog, my blog unique is that it offers the perspective of teenager, a young adult, a 17 year old that is hoping to make a difference.