Friends, never stop doing good, and it doesn’t matter whether the people around you recognize that it was you who did the good deed. I invite you to remember the most touching actions of this year that are truly worthy of respect.
Superheroes wash windows orphanage
A service company from the American state of Pennsylvania has chosen a very original and touching way to wash windows in orphanage Pittsburgh. The employees descending from the roof from floor to floor were dressed in superhero costumes - Batman, Spider-Man, Superman and Captain America.
Good on the road
It’s no secret that the Internet is replete with all sorts of videos about Russia in the “trash” category with our drunken, fighting fellow citizens, lawlessness on the roads and other attributes Everyday life Russians filmed on video recorders. But Arkady Moryakhin from Almaty decided to show that in Russia there are not only reckless drivers and drunk driving, but also people who do good deeds and help each other for no reason at any time of the day.
Billionaire without a billion
Famous writer JK Rowling lost her billionaire status because she spent so much money on charity. This is the first similar case in Forbes history.
Firefighter rescued a kitten
A real incident that happened in the American town of Fresno will make your heart beat faster. Regular firefighter Corey Kalanick was checking in a smoke-filled room after a fire when he suddenly saw this little ball of fur showing no signs of life.
San Francisco has become Batman's city
12 thousand city residents fulfilled the dream of five-year-old Miles Scott. Organized the performance charitable foundation Make a Wish, which grants wishes to terminally ill children. The fact is that the boy has leukemia. He has been undergoing treatment for several years and is now in remission.
Heroes as they are
Grandfather Dobry
98-year-old beggar Grandfather Dobri from the Bulgarian village of Bailovo, dressed in homespun clothes and ancient leather boots, often stands outside the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Sofia. Every day he gets up early and walks 10 kilometers from his home to the capital. In 2010, during filming documentary film about the cathedral, a Bulgarian television journalist made a shocking discovery in the church archives - the most generous private donation the cathedral has ever received - 40,000 euros was made by an old beggar - Grandfather Dobri.
The 98-year-old saint does not touch a single penny of the money that is handed to him. He lives on his pension of 100 euros a month, as well as non-monetary handouts in the form of fruit and bread. Grandfather Dobri also helps many others, for example, he paid the utility bills of an orphanage that was on the verge of losing heat and electricity. He also helps the homeless. But we will never know about all the good deeds of Grandfather Dobry, because he never talks about them.
Farewell to a football fan
Red Mark was one of the most famous Dutch fans. At the beginning of 2000, he managed to unite opposing factions of Feyenoord fans. Before the start of preparations for the new season, sad news came - Red Mark is terminally ill. The doctors measured him in best case scenario a month, at worst - a week. In just a few days, an unforgettable event was organized for Red Mark, who had been a Feyenoord fan for 41 years.
Good granny
Magadan resident Rufina Ivanovna Korobeinikova knitted and donated three hundred pairs of warm socks to flood victims in Khabarovsk.
Shelter a stranger
October photo young guy, who sleeps sweetly on the shoulder of an unfamiliar passenger in the subway, spread throughout the Western Internet. Inspired by this touching act, Charitable organization Charidy decided to conduct her experiment in the New York subway. The hero of the video pretended to be tired for a whole hour, falling asleep on the shoulders of the passengers sitting next to him. At first the passengers waved it off, but then...
The homeless man returned his wallet
“Today, having left home early in the morning in order to avoid traffic jams, I went to pick up my mother so that we could then go to the dacha together. Having gathered all my most loved ones together, I was ready to go to the dacha, when suddenly I discovered that my wallet with ALL the documents for the car, license, cards, passport had disappeared - in short, my whole life had disappeared without a trace. I returned home in desperation and suddenly a stranger rang at my door. At first glance, he is an ordinary homeless person, but with clear, kind eyes. He said hello, introduced himself and after the phrase “You must have been knocked off your feet...” handed me my wallet. Silent scene. With shaking hands, I begin to rummage through my wallet and realize that everything is there, even the money! My husband immediately handed him the money, which he refused! You see, a man of no fixed abode found a wallet on the highway, got on the train, then the metro, then a minibus, and searched for my house for an hour just to help. He left, and we stood and thought about it for a long time. a simple man with a capital letter!” Irina Demidova.
A lesson in the joys of life at a gas station
An ordinary American couple who arrived at a gas station gave us all an amazing and unexpected lesson in the joy of life. Will is a bartender, Monifa is a fitness trainer, and they have been married for 12 years. Simple, cheerful, open people, sincerely loving friend friend and life, who know how to enjoy every moment, even such an unexpected one. Instead of being shy and modest, they put on a fantastically funny, kind and touching show near their car, captivating first the host and TV viewers, and then the entire Internet.
An act is a certain action motivated by the inner world of a person formed at that moment. Actions can be moral and immoral. They are committed under the influence of a sense of duty, convictions, education, love, hatred, sympathy. Every society has its heroes. There is also a certain scale by which a person’s actions are assessed. According to it, it is possible to determine whether this is the act of a hero, which will serve as an example for subsequent generations.
Even ancient philosophers thought about the concept of feat. Contemporary thinkers have not escaped reflection on this topic. All human life consists of continuous chain actions, i.e. actions. It often happens that a person's behavior and thoughts differ. For example, a child wishes only the best for his parents. However, their actions often upset them. We can say with confidence that our tomorrow depends on our actions today. In particular, our whole life.
Socrates' Search for the Meaning of Life
Socrates was one of the active seekers of the meaning of this concept. He tried to figure out what the real one should be like heroic deed. and the evil in which a person makes a choice - all this worried the ancient philosopher. He penetrated inner world this or that personality, its essence. I was looking for a higher purpose for my actions. In his opinion, they should be motivated by the main virtue - mercy.
The basis of actions is the goal of learning to distinguish between good and evil. When a person can penetrate into the essence of these concepts, he will be able, according to Socrates, to always act courageously. Such a person will definitely perform a heroic act for the sake of the greater good. Socrates' philosophical reflections were aimed at finding such an incentive, a force that would not need recognition. In other words, the philosopher is talking about self-knowledge, when a person will have internal motivations that replace centuries-old traditions.
Sophists vs Socrates
The philosophy of Socrates tried to explain the essence of the concept of “action”: what is it? The motivating component of his action is the opposite of the position of the sophists, who teach to find out their hidden motives, giving them the status of conscious ones. According to Protagoras, who was a contemporary of Socrates, as an individual it is a clear and successful expression with the ultimate satisfaction of personal desires and needs.
The Sophists believed that every action of a selfish motive must be justified in the eyes of relatives and other people, since they are part of society. Therefore, the environment needs to be convinced, using sophistic technologies of speech construction, that it is necessary for them. That is, the young man who accepted sophistic views learned not only to know himself, but also, having set a certain goal, achieve it and prove that he was right under any circumstances.
"Socratic Dialogue"
Socrates departs from the earthly. He rises higher in considering such a concept as an act. What is it, what is its essence? This is what the thinker wants to understand. He seeks the meaning of all human existence, starting from the physical and selfish. Thus, a complex system of techniques is developed, which is called “Socratic dialogue”. These methods lead a person along the path of knowledge of the truth. The philosopher leads the interlocutor to understanding deep meaning manliness, goodness, valor, moderation, virtue. Without such qualities, an individual cannot consider himself a human being. Virtue is the developed habit of always striving for good, which will form the corresponding good deeds.
Vice and driving force
The opposite of virtue is vice. It shapes a person’s actions, directing them towards evil. In order to establish himself in virtue, a person must acquire knowledge and acquire prudence. Socrates did not deny the presence of pleasures in human life. But he denied their decisive power over him. The basis of bad actions is ignorance, and the basis of moral actions is knowledge. In his research, he analyzed a lot of human action: what is its motive, impulse. The thinker comes close to the Christian views formed later. We can say that he deeply penetrated into the human essence of man, into the concept of the essence of knowledge, prudence and the origin of vice.
Aristotle's view
Aristotle criticizes Socrates. He does not deny the importance of knowledge in order for a person to always perform good deeds. He says that actions are determined by the influence of passion. Explaining this by saying that often a person who has knowledge acts badly, since feeling prevails over wisdom. According to Aristotle, the individual has no power over himself. And, accordingly, knowledge does not determine his actions. In order to perform good deeds, a person needs a morally stable position, his volitional orientation, and a certain experience acquired when he experiences sorrow and receives pleasure. It is grief and joy that, according to Aristotle, are the measure of human actions. The guiding force is the will, which is formed by the freedom of choice of a person.
Measure of actions
He introduces the concept of the measure of actions: lack, excess and what is between them. It is by acting according to middle-level patterns, the philosopher believes, that a person makes right choice. An example of such a measure is masculinity, which falls between such qualities as reckless courage and cowardice. He also divides actions into voluntary, when the source lies within the person himself, and involuntary, forced by external circumstances. Considering the action, the essence of the concept, the corresponding role in the life of a person and society, we draw some conclusions. We can say that to a certain extent both philosophers are right. They were considering inner man quite deeply, avoiding superficial judgments and being in search of the truth.
Kant's view
Kant made a significant contribution to the theory that considers the concept of action and its motivation. He talks about the need to act in such a way that you can say: “Do as I do...”. By this he emphasizes that an act can be considered truly moral when the motivation is free morality, sounding in a person’s soul like an alarm bell. Historians of philosophy believe: human actions and their motives are determined by Kant, from the point of view of rigorism.
For example, considering the situation with a drowning person, Kant argues: if a parent saves his child, this act will not be moral. After all, it is dictated by a feeling of natural love for his own heir. will be the case if a person saves a drowning man unknown to him, guided by the principle: “ Human life- the highest value." There is another option. If a truly moral heroic deed worthy of high recognition was saved. Subsequently, Kant softened these concepts and combined in them such human motives as love and duty.
Relevance of the concept of action
The concept of good deeds continues to be discussed today. How often does society recognize as moral the actions of great people, the motive of which in fact was not at all good goals. What is heroism and courage these days? Of course, to save a person or animal from death, to feed the hungry, to clothe the needy. Even the simplest action can be called a real good deed: advice to a friend, help to a colleague, calling your parents. Taking an old woman across the road, giving alms to a poor man, picking up a piece of paper on the street are acts that also fall into this category. As for heroism, it is based on sacrificing one’s life for the benefit of others. This is, first of all, the defense of the Motherland from enemies, the work of firefighters, police, and rescuers. You can even become a hero a common person, if he took a baby out of the fire, neutralized a robber, covered with his chest a passerby at whom the barrel of a machine gun was aimed.
According to many psychologists, philosophers and theologians, until the age of seven, a child is not able to fully distinguish between good and evil. Therefore, appealing to conscience is useless, due to the fact that the concept for it has very blurred boundaries. However, from the age of seven, he is a fully formed personality who can already consciously make a choice in one direction or another. The actions of children at this time must be skillfully directed by their parents in the right direction.
What is kindness? Each of us has thought about this question at least once in our lives. Kindness can be called a feeling of compassion for a fellow being. In frequent cases, this is accompanied by sacrifice towards others and neglect of oneself. In other words, when a person does not know how to refuse or say “no” correctly, for some this is accompanied by a feeling of pity, for others, through good deeds, they increase their level of significance and self-affirmation. Kindness can be selfless and pure. Although this is becoming less common these days. In general, kindness is different for everyone, but it is intended for one main goal - to help another person.
Goals of Kindness
Selfless help to another person should be one of the goals in the life of each of us. Someone always needs a helping hand, and we need to extend it, because someday any of us may find ourselves in need of words of consolation. Therefore, if there is an opportunity to help, it must be done. And some people won’t have problems with their conscience later.
Good people
A kind person is one who, in relation to other living beings, performs actions that bring them some benefit. In this case, the benefit is mutual, since by a good deed a person has increased his level of significance and self-esteem. And he helped the one who was given a good deed in solving a particular situation.
The kindest man
Who is he? And are there such people left in our society today? Most a kind person... That's what some people are sometimes called. This is how they characterize a benefactor who provides help to others and does not ask for anything in return. Of course, for others to respond this way, you need to do a lot of good deeds and help more than one person. However, words of gratitude and happy eyes of people are worth helping someone in need if it is within our capabilities. Such actions give strength, energize, and spiritualize.
What can you do to become kinder?
From the moment of birth, a child is pure and innocent, he is kind to everyone around him, and only upbringing, the example of parents and the attitude of loved ones towards the baby make him good or evil.
The mistake of many people is that they believe that character cannot be changed. People say: However, this is not so. Temperament cannot be changed, we are born with it, but character can always be changed. And therefore, if a person does not show kindness towards another living being, he should not be blamed. There may be various reasons for this. Perhaps he himself does not know how to help himself with this, as a human being.
In order to become a little better, you need to understand yourself, understand what makes you, for example, angry, aggressive, unfriendly, envious. Sometimes this is very difficult to do, because “you can’t find a speck in your own eye.”
For example, many are driven to be angry by financial disadvantage, a constantly drinking spouse, problems with a child or health, or envy towards another person, and so on. Having understood yourself, you need to resolve this or that situation. If there are financial problems - change jobs, with drinking husband- break up with the child - establish relationships and understand his behavior; health can be improved by going, for example, on vacation. Of course, this sounds easy, but in reality it is much more difficult, but each of us can do it. You may need the help of a specialist, but all this is for your own good.
Good qualities of the soul
Among positive traits character, we can distinguish 12 good qualities of the human soul:
- goodwill;
- responsiveness;
- unselfishness;
- honesty;
- cheerfulness;
- loyalty;
- compassion;
- strength of will;
- reasonableness;
- mercy;
- wisdom;
- justice.
- Benevolence comes from the phrase “who wishes well,” in other words, a friendly person.
- Responsiveness - willingness to help.
- Selflessness is the absence of desire for profit or personal gain.
- Honesty, or truthfulness, is sincerity towards another person in speech, deeds, and actions.
- Cheerfulness is a person’s optimistic attitude towards everything: circumstances and difficulties.
- Loyalty is a devoted attitude towards a partner, work, idea, etc.
- - an emotional state expressed in understanding the misfortunes of others.
- Willpower is a mental state in which a person is able to control his actions to achieve certain goals.
- Reasonableness is the ability to make the right or correct decision.
- Mercy is a benevolent, caring attitude towards another person, readiness to provide help.
- Wisdom is the degree of mastery of knowledge and life experience and the ability to use them.
- Justice is right decision or the right thing to do.
Good deeds
There are a lot of people in the world who do good deeds. A person who has done a good deed will always be remembered and thanked in his soul and in words. Because there are such people in the world, millions of children recover, accidents are avoided, those in need have a roof over their heads, the elderly receive the necessary support and help, animals find a home and loving owners. Good deeds cannot be counted, and a good person is one whose words and deeds are for the good.
What actions ennoble the soul?
Indeed, what? A good person is such because he does good deeds. By these actions a person ennobles his soul, gives it a facet, endows it with richness and breadth.
People say that everything in life comes back like a boomerang, so a good person will always receive only good deeds in return for his actions. You should not succumb to temptations and self-interest by doing something bad. You need to think wisely and understand that everything will definitely come back.
Types of Kindness
Kindness happens of various nature. It manifests itself in different ways. Someone is so kind that he wouldn’t hurt a fly, but usually many take advantage of the simplicity of such people and do not give anything in return. Such a person sometimes will not offer help himself, but if someone asks for it, he will not refuse.
There is kindness that manifests itself in actions. Especially if this is a good deed, that is, if a person performs some kind deed when he is not asked for it, but is needed.
There is kindness, which manifests itself in a kind word, wise advice. There is always a large environment around such people, since the problems are endless, good and wise advice is often needed to help in their adversities.
Selfless kindness indicates helping another person. At the same time, they do not ask for anything in return for their action. Such people are called selfless. Such kindness becomes a rare occurrence V modern life, and even between family and friends.
Following selfless help comes selfish kindness. This is not necessarily something bad. For example, one person turned to another for help, promising to thank him in return. This is a mutually beneficial relationship in which both parties are usually satisfied. This format of communication is not uncommon nowadays. This pattern of behavior manifests itself in all areas of life: kindergarten, educational institution, medical institution and others.
A person commits many good and bad deeds throughout his life. Most often, his behavior lies in internal convictions, beliefs, and ideas. Almost all actions that a person performs have some purpose. In this article we will give an example of good and bad deeds of people.
Good deeds of a person
This can include many different behaviors. For example, when a person helps his neighbor (material, physical, verbal help). People don't have to do all this, but they do it so they can help others.
In addition to helping others, people often help animals or nature. On the street he can feed various animals or even take them home if they need it. People grow plants and plant trees.
Saving other people is a very good deed that cannot be forgotten.
Good deeds include observing etiquette, rules of being in society, and respect for other individuals.
Bad deeds of a person
As a rule, bad deeds are everything that brings personal benefit to a person, in some cases with harm to society.
Propaganda of alcohol, drugs, violence, etc. Abuse of animals, other people, harm to nature.
Very often a person commits bad deeds by littering anywhere or when he commits theft.
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conclusions
Many people who have done bad things often find various excuses for themselves. It is important to always remember the rules and laws, because some actions can be not only bad, but also terrible. If a person does good deeds, it will have a very positive impact on society. But if people commit crimes, then they are punished.
“Not a single good deed, no matter how small, is wasted.”
Aesop
1. A good deed that led to a woman risking her life to shelter a Jewish family
In 1941, Zofia Banya, a poor Polish farmwoman, discovered that she did not have enough money to buy the supplies her family needed at the general store. The store owner, Israel Rubinek, told her to take the things she needed and pay for them when she could. This act of kindness was literally unheard of in war-torn Poland, and Banya did not forget it.
Two years later, the Nazis were hunting down Jews in Poland and sending them to concentration camps. Fearing for the life of the good young man, who helped her, Banya, risking her life, hid Rubinek and his wife in her house for two and a half years. Seven times German soldiers came to the Bani farm in search of hiding Jews, and each time Sophia's family hid them in a tiny underground. One night, Nazi soldiers slept in the Bathhouse's living room, just a few centimeters from where Rubinek and his wife were hidden.
Decades passed, and Rubinek's family met the woman who hid them from the Nazis. Their granddaughter says: “One incredibly good deed in the impossible difficult situation, everything changed. Depth human soul impossible to measure or explain. These poor Polish farmers feared for their lives, yet they decided to help two people they barely knew.”
2. Kind words from a boss kept a man from committing suicide. 
Tim Sanders - coach personal growth and former head of marketing at Yahoo! Sanders recommends that all of his employees communicate with their colleagues and subordinates and praise them for their work. He often tells the story of how he did just that: he talked to his subordinates personally and praised them for the work they did, and let them know that he personally and the company as a whole appreciated their efforts. Sanders remembers once telling a person that he was glad that this person came into his life and that he appreciated him.
After Sanders visited the man's team, he was shocked when the man showed up a few days later and gave him an expensive gift - an Xbox game console. As it turned out, the employee purchased this game console in exchange for a revolver with which he wanted to kill himself. After he heard kind words from his boss, the man decided to move on with his life and recover from depression. Just a couple kind words kept him from committing suicide.
“Sometimes people just need to see a human touch,” Sanders says.
3. Teens saved a little girl from being kidnapped 
In July 2013, five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas was playing in her yard in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when she suddenly disappeared. Rojas' parents feared the worst, so they notified the police and began intensively searching the area.
Instead of waiting for the police to find the little girl, fifteen-year-old Temar Boggs and his friend decided to start searching for her themselves. They soon noticed Rojas in a car with a man, so they followed the car on bicycles. The teenagers chased the car for fifteen minutes while the man behind the wheel tried to escape from them. Finally, he apparently gave up, pulled over and threw the child out of the car.
“She ran up to me and said she wanted to see her mom,” Temar said.
4. A 21-year-old organ donor saved seven lives.
Organ donors are heroes who perform the most selfless acts imaginable. When Henry Mackaman, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of bacterial meningitis in May 2013, his family found some small solace in his decision to donate his organs.
McMann's simple decision to check the Organ Donor box on his driver's license proved to be an invaluable act that would later save the lives of seven people. His mother wrote the following on the CaringBridge website: “We are all proud of Henry's decision to be an organ donor. His generosity does not surprise anyone who knew him. Thanks to his decision, up to 54 people will have the chance to improve their lives thanks to a piece of the incredible life Henry lived.”
5. A man jumped onto the tracks to save a stranger 
In January 2007, twenty-year-old Cameron Hollopeter was waiting for a train on the New York subway when he had a seizure and began convulsing. Trying to get up, he fell on the tracks at the exact moment when the train came around the corner and rushed towards him.
Fifty year old builder and veteran navy Wesley Autrey was talking to his two daughters when he saw a man falling. In a split second, he made a decision and jumped onto the tracks to help Hollopiter. Autry covered Hollopeter with his body, pushed him and moved him so that they lay together between the rails. The driver honked his horn and tried to stop, but it was too late and the train passed over both men.
Five carriages passed over the pair of men, just inches from Autry's head. When the train finally stopped, he told the people screaming in horror that they were okay. Hailed as a hero, Autry later said, “I don’t feel like I did anything special, I just saw someone who needed help. I did what I had to do."
6. A ten-year-old boy stood up to bullies to save a cat. 
Standing up to bullies isn't easy, but that's exactly what Wendell Overton did when he saw a group of kids tormenting a stray cat in the area. Overton had spotted the cat in the area several times before, but one day he saw a group of hooligan children, ranging in age from five to thirteen, running over the poor animal with bicycles, throwing it into the air, and spraying energy drinks in its face. Fearing they would kill the cat, Overton bravely intervened and took the cat home to his mother, who called the Outer Banks Humane Society.
When news of Overton's compassion and kindness became public, he received great amount letters of praise and encouragement from all over the world.
7. Strangers lined up to save a drowning boy 
Sunny day on the beach in Napier New Zealand, twelve-year-old Josh McQuoid was standing knee-deep in water, playing with friends, when a dangerous current knocked him off his feet and carried him far from the shore. The boy tried to keep his head above the water, struggling with the raging waves.
Another beachgoer and two police officers spotted the boy struggling in the waves and rushed into the water to help him, but the waves were too strong. After Constable Bryan Farquharson realized he couldn't reach the boy without falling victim to the waves himself, he organized a chain of people to reach the child while remaining tied to the shore.
8. A stranger’s kiss saved a man who was trying to commit suicide
In the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, a sixteen-year-old boy stood on a bridge, threatening to jump off and commit suicide. Hundreds of onlookers watched in horror as he refused to cross back to the safe side of the railing. The police arrived at the scene and began to negotiate with him, but no one could reach him.
At that moment, Liu Wenxiu, a nineteen-year-old hotel waitress, was returning home from work when she noticed the guy and knew that she had to do something to help him. Wenxue herself once wanted to commit suicide, so she knew exactly how the guy felt. After telling police she was his girlfriend, Liu got close enough to talk to him. She shared with him her sad story of a difficult life and showed him the scar on her wrist left after she tried to commit suicide by cutting her wrists.
“He said he was hopeless and that I shouldn't waste my time trying to save him. But I told him, “I'm not trying to save your life, I just want you to understand how stupid you are being. Look at me, I was in the same situation as you, but now everything has changed,” Wenxue said.
Finally, the girl was able to lean in and hug him, and then she suddenly kissed him. The police were then able to take the knife the guy was holding and move him to the safe side of the bridge railing.
9. A woman saved children from a rolling truck 
Lezlie Bicknell had just parked in a store parking lot in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when she noticed a small child in the driver's seat of a truck parked next to her car. Suddenly, the truck began to roll backwards, straight towards a very busy street. Without a moment's hesitation, Bicknell jumped out of her car to stop the moving car. Because of this, her own car began to roll backwards, cutting off the truck's path and stopping it from entering the highway.
Below is an amazing video of the incident:
10. A woman absolutely donated a kidney. to a stranger
Retired police sergeant Michael Newman needed a kidney to survive, so he former employees desperately appealed to the people through local means mass media to find a donor. Michael, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, didn't have much hope that anyone would be his donor. However, a local woman named Kellie Boff printed out the article and set it aside. Boff says she kept coming back to the article, drawn to it for no reason. Finally, she picked up the phone and called the Mayo Clinic.
It turned out that Boff was the ideal donor. So she agreed to donate one of her kidneys to Sergeant Newman, whom she had never even met.