In response to Jenny Beers question- "Can we truly do something without thinking of what we will get in return or how it will make us feel after completing it?"

Honestly I think it is impossible for humans to not thinking about something. It is in our human nature to analyze everything we do...why we did it...did we benefit from it..how, how it makes us feel, how could we have done it better, should we do it again. These are all questions could potentially arise when thinking about our actions.

We all do things for a variety of reasons. I think the three most common reasons are the following...1)Because we have too;it's a requirement. 2)It is what we should do. And 3)For the benefits.

Many of us do things because of the simple fact that it will make us look better in society and thus probably be more accepted. At many high schools it is a requirement to perform some kind of community service in order to graduate. Also on many college applications it ask you about your community service. Community service fits into all the three reason that I metioned above. As I just said it can be a requirement,it can be beneficial, and it is something we should do.

Even if we don't think about the benefits before or during the action we probably will when we think about it later. Besides many times when we are presented with the opportunity to do something we are told how we will benefit...this is how we get more people to participate. Another reason why we can't go without thinking about our actions is because many times we are asked to think about them and reflect on them, report about them, etc.

Also it is in our human nature to constantly compete to be the best and thus we are constantly trying to figure out how we can better ourselves, how we can improve. One of the ways we do this is to think about our mistakes. So many times when we do something wrong we are told, "It's okay, we learn from our mistakes".

Question: If we never thought about our actions could we continue to learn from our mistakes?