What do you like to do for someone else?

Help them figure out their life. Does that sound grandiose? Literally, have someone ask me to help them with a resume, figuring out a college major, edit their graduate essay, help with their love life, etc.

Help with English as a second language, especially understanding what the language is all about and inspiring them to both enjoy it and be less intimidated by it. Though I am paid to do this I regularly put in extra hours just for fun.

I am a compulsive helper.

Run errands for some. Take Tom Yum to people suffering from a cold. Cook dinner. And listen when someone is having a bad time.

Listen.

I like to cook and entertain, buy gifts just because, I once paid for a friend to travel with me for 2 weeks, but most of all, I like to make people LAUGH! :-)

I like to spread the knowledge that I was forced to learn painfully through trial and error during my surgeries, to people who are beginning the surgical process. Why doctors or nurses don’t give pamphlets detailing these things, I’ll never understand…

I give great neck and shoulder massages. It’s a good feeling when those hard and tight muscles relax and I know they feel better. (No. I don’t do other parts of the body.)

I like to bring a little ray of sunshine into the lives of those I deem worthy, family & assorted desirables.

I love to cook for people. Haven’t gotten to do it often enough in the past few years. In college, I regularly threw celebrated dinner parties for friends.
I am a good listener, although, like Nick Carraway, this has made me the victim of more than a few champion bores…
I like helping people with analytical writing. I do this in the capacity of my job, but it’s not really what I’m supposed to be focusing on, yet I make it a priority. I have gotten thank you notes from students for my writing help, and that really means a lot.

Most people help others for their own self-gratification. I’m one of them.

A few years ago I started a 10 week free yoga program in a local park, and I don’t even like yoga. I did it because I knew it would be an easy success and only cost me $50 a week. By the third week over 60 people were showing up and I was getting thank you after thank you. The following year I added another type of class along with the yoga and they are both still going every summer, except now I don’t have to organize or pay for it.

Drive them to and from the airport. No greater love hath a friend.

cook. hug. help them talk through their thoughts…

One of the things I like to do most is to make someone realize that something they take for granted about themselves is special. People can sometimes be so very humble about things they have a really talent for, almost as if they think, well, anyone can do that. I like to show them with my appreciation and recognition, just simply complement them on it, and hopefully, not embarrass them too much. I don’t like to leave it unsaid because maybe no one ever told them before