• Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    You gotta be “me first.” But you can also realize that other people deserve to be happy and healthy, and sometimes you can sacrifice for them.

    I did the volunteer EMT thing for a number of years, but I think I was always selfish. I felt accomplished, I felt connected with my community, I thought I was doing good things. So it was all these good feelings that drove me to keep doing it, and a nice fringe benefit was that I helped people.