"As our self-interest diminishes, our anxieties disappear, and then comes quiet and firm joy, which always diffuses us with a good spiritual disposition and a clear conscience. Every good deed helps to kindle this feeling of joy within us." — Tolstoy
Good deeds are important, and while its important to do them to strangers, I think it's even more important to do it for those people close to us. I try to be a supportive friend, because it matters.
Just to drive the point home, remember this dramatization of why it's imperative to be there when the people we love need us.
