Serving pulls you out of confinement

Happiness does not grow when everything revolves around yourself. The human heart becomes wider when it seeks the good of others through real deeds. Serving does not mean letting yourself be used or living exhausted. It means discovering that your life has more breathing room when it stops being closed in on your tastes, your wounds, and your plans. To keep this from remaining mere theory, it helps to bring it down to a concrete decision: a pending conversation, a small renunciation, a priority to reorder, or a more Christian way of looking at what is happening.