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To help or not to help? Last few days I was wondering about help. Should I help to everybody, who ask for me? People become upset when I refuse their requests, I also become upset. But on the contrary I'm losing my time, when I'm doing what people ask for. Sometimes I don't want to do smth what people ask for. And I can't help everybody. Or maybe I just selfish and just think about myself? I don't think so, I respect my time. Eventually, I think I should help people if this relationship is important for me, if I have enough time. It also depends on what kind of help is needed. And also I should think about my benefits and consequenses - what I can get from helping: money, better pelationship, fame or smthing else. If I can be really useful, I should help, for example, on italki. But if somebody, who is asking me for help, can do that thing like me, why doesn't he do this?

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Dima you have an amazing heart, try balance, focus on your things that you want to finish first and then in your extra time yes help people, or you can just refer them to a site or something, so they don't depend on others, like this saying : "don't give me a fish, but teach me how to hunt it".
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I used to help lots of students on italki, but then I got a million friend requests from people who never read my profile, didn't know that I am a professional teacher and expected me to continue helping them for free. So now I help occasionally when I have free time. In the world I try to help others when I can.

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