While my Warrior articles may paint a story that I’m breezing through leveling and enjoying every minute, the truth is I have hit walls. As I continued to die, I nearly gave up on what seemed to be a fruitless attempt at finishing a quest. As I ran to my body, I received a tell from a Death Knight who happened to be riding by and asked if I needed for him to help me out. To be honest, I was shocked that only did someone say they wanted to help me, but someone who was in the zone just passing by, wanted to help someone they didn’t know. I shouldn’t act like helping people doesn’t happen but truthfully even I find myself only inviting or helping someone if it benefits me, rather than them.
After he basically ravaged most of The Wetlands, I told him I was thankful for helping me and that I was shocked that someone would take the time to help out a Gnome Warrior (People hate Gnomes). He told me that just hours prior, he had someone who helped him as he was leveling an alt and had been looking for the chance to go out and do it for someone else. It was almost as if kindness was contagious. I finished up in Wetlands and signed on to my main. I headed to Red Ridge and found a Human Warlock struggling with a few Blackrock Orcs and asked if she needed me to help her out. She thanked me and continued questing in the area.
The thing that gets me is how involved I feel about this. Yes WoW has social elements and yes, people do help others all the time but with this proverbial chain that was created, I wondered if the Warlock felt the same thing the Death Knight and I did. I do know I’m probably being way to philosophical about this and could easily ask the Warlock but maybe it isn’t my place to ask someone if they feel the need to help someone. We are strangers after all.
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November 6th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
It is true, I rarely ever help someone unless I get something from it. >_<
November 11th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I believe in Karma. Not the mystical version, the social sciences version. If you do a good deed for someone, that person will be helped much more than it cost you, and they will be more likely to help someone else. I’ve received random acts of kindness, and I do what I can to repay the system. Not because I owe it anything, but because I like the idea of living in a world (or realm, in my case) where random acts of kindness are common.