And I was wondering if maybe some of you already do this:

How about an own personal quota?  It doesn't have to be anything fancy or extreme or "LW official."  It would depend on my schedule though.  The idea is to have some sort of goal that I can attain.  This can be a monthly, or weekly, goal.  Maybe 5 a month.  4.  3.  Maybe even more.  With goals, I can continue to do what I once wanted to do so badly and be consistent at it.

I think we grow as humans when we help other people.  We get a chance to view the world, whatever little amount it is.  Through experience and thinking about possible options for other people we become stronger thinkers and doers.  Helping other people may even help ourselves.  I remember doing one eHelp when I felt like crap and after reading the response I gave, I actually realized a few things about myself and my own situation.

I do realize we go through some rough times.  Times so rough that we barely want to see the next day.  And that's fine.  Maybe with goals to answer eHelps and reply in the Serious Forum though, we can stay that much more motivated to consistently help others.

I'm sorry if this doesn't make too much sense.  It's just what I was feeling and I thought I'd share.  Maybe some of you don't agree with having these sort of goals because of certain circumstances.    For however many SLs want to try this, I wish you the best.  This is personally something I'm going to do and hopefully it helps me.

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And I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps.

I do agree that we grow as humans when we help people. It opens up a world much different then ours and in a sense, helps us discover answers to our own individual problems we may have. It's also always a pleasing experience when I'm able to share my life stories and explain how I got through them, hoping to better put in reality their issue and how they should respond.

We do go through times in our lives which may be rough and hard. This causes us to be unable to respond to eHelps. I know you might be going through one now, but the point being you are still here and making a conscious effort to do better and push forward. I know, from experience, I was going through a tough time. Isobel, actually, was there to catch me when I fell and after that, I responded to two, maybe three eHelps.

I guess it also has to do with how many eHelps are in the queue and the subjects which encompass them. Since we are receiving them so slow lately, I will surely go and head over to the Serious Forum every now and then.

(Made perfect sense. (:)

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We fly balloons on this fuel called love.

I never really done goals for myself, but i...well i wrote a topic into the serious forum and i realised that the feeling of it not being answer is horrible...makes you think that your hopeless and no one can help you...your fucked!!! Thats why i decided to do more of them and went back to past pages to look for any topics with zero responses. Im glad your going to do more of the serious forum!! Thank you.