anone else into doing good deeds?

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We have an elderly neighbor a couple houses down who is elderly. I see his car at least twice, maybe three times a day drive by at various times throughout the day.

It snowed a few inches the other night and today, when I drove by his house, I saw that his driveway hadn't been shoveled yet and the car was still covered and the only footprints in the snow were the mailman's. I thought that he might be a prisoner to the snow being elderly, he can't shovel very well and wouldn't be able to go out and visit loved ones, go to the grocery store or get his medicines. These things run through my mind when I see a situation.

Anyway, I shoveled the driveway and around his car and the walkway up to the house and the landing. No one poked their head out to see what was going on. When I got home, I decided to call the police dispatch to see if they couldn't send someone out to do a safety check on him because his car was still in the driveway. When I was waiting for them, his landlord showed up to plow. Go figure. Anyway, I told him what I did and that I was concerned for the man inside. The landlord knocked on the door and the man answered.

Got my exercise anyway.

Good job, man.

I try to help people, though you can't always be sure how people are going to respond. People can be strange.

I love to do good deeds for people, all day long.

Altruism is a great thing, makes the world a better place.

god bless the OP

thanks. it was completely altruistic. In fact, if anything, I wanted to do it for him because it was christmas eve and I would have hated the thought of him stuck at home because of the snow, unable to go get medicines or food.

Good on you, the Knights of the old days would be proud.

Sending out positive karma is never a bad thing. I like to ship a good dose when I see an opportunity myself.

That was very thoughtful and kind, Master Jedi! I like to do good deeds, but opportunities are far and few between, since I don't go out much. Some of the things I've done in the last month, were leave unwanted household items near the curb of my house, so that people could take them for free. I also save plastic shopping bags and donate them to a local thrift shop. My favorite moment though, came this past Thanksgiving when my boyfriend and I were driving home after spending Thanksgiving with his cousin. We stopped at a gas station, and a homeless guy came panhandling. As a rule, we don't give money to panhandlers because we have seen them take it and buy alcohol.

So, when the panhandler asked if we had any money for him, we did not give him any. Then he asked if we had any leftovers. My boyfriend's cousin had filled several containers for us, with delicious food. So we gave this guy most of the food. It was a veritable feast. He thanked us over and over, and we felt good about this all the way home.

always someone waiting in the shadows to say something snide.

I definitely believe in 'paying it forward'. I purposely look for things to do to make the planet a nicer place. It makes me feel good, and I would like to think that a random stranger would help me out if I needed it...

a few inches of snow?! jeez where live that's an easy day, most don't shovel a couple of inches
as we get more then a couple of feet

I stand neutral in my deeds I think. I do good things on occasion, but usually I don't because too many bad experiences led to people telling me I shouldn't have helped at all (because of stupid pride) or that I did something all wrong and now they have to fix it .

Also, currently, there aren't too many good deeds to be had in my apartment all alone... and that's where I am most of the time 24/7

I also don't feel some sort of invigorating energy when I do a good deed. It just feels normal

I do good deeds, but after I ended up only being used for my money, when I over and over helped a now ex-friend in need with something, I have become more cynical about people's intentions... which is kind of sad as I was cynical enough as I was, before that experience, that I suppose was rather naive of me. I guess you just HAVE to assume that you will get used, in the end, if you show too much kindness. However, I still let others cut me in lines, I hold up doors to completely random people, and I am very honest if I buy something from a smaller company, and they end up charging too little (or returning too much, in the case of returning goods for the money back), and I always buy some things I need from a smaller store, where I live, since I know he doesn't get that many customers... and he's a kind person who acts respectably, anyway. I have also ended up helping an elderly lady with her bicycle lock, since she couldn't get it open, due to not having her glasses, or something... she became very happy. Of course, before you do things such as that, you have to realize that the person may be a pickpocket, so you should not let your guard down, and be aware of assistants being around to that possible pickpocket. :/ Definitely check your pockets, afterwards... -_-

I personally just do it because I feel it is the right thing to do, although I guess being kind to random people helps me feel a bit less dead inside, as well... however, I am a very peculiar person, as if someone treats me even mildly poorly, I may start thinking about acting out in revenge against them, or if it's very poorly, I may start feeling murderous. -_-; But if people just are polite and kind to me, I will be at least as kind and polite back to them... despite the fact that I know that if I knew them better, I would most likely dislike them rather a lot... but regardless how few I would like, and how few would like me, I have to meet them with a default goodness - no matter how few you'd at least somewhat like are around, they still are there, somewhere... and even if you kind of would disregard that they are there, it's otherwise so that if people would all act impolitely, due to their assumptions on who they wouldn't like, it'd only be war in this world. So a default kindness to people you well may even hate is the best way to handle it all... and at select few times you may even find that the people you thought you would hate aren't so bad, after all.

I sometimes say "no good deed goes unpunished". I want to help people when I can but it's very easy to be taken advantage of & doing something good can have unforeseen possibly very dangerous consequences. I tend to be taken advantage of or I somehow inadvertently make things worse by trying to help.