I brought this out after I felt pleasure doing a favor for my fiends. They requested me to buy some doughnuts in the way I came back to school. I did as they requested they appreciated and their facial expressions showed their happiness.
Here's how this program will run. First, I would like to select a high school student whose name is notorious for selfishness. As he program starts, he is not allowed to reject any requests from people around him. If he does reject one, he will have to do service work for an hour per one rejection. Someone might request him things that he cannot or should not. For example, he may be asked to give money out or to showthe exam paper to others. These kinds of requests will be advised by the programmer that the person will be able to reject those requests.
The person will be very unhappy to do every single favor he gets for the first days. He might reject series of requests that he might have to go to service at maybe an orphanage for several hours in weekends. His apparent and the only feeling would be anger. Being furious, he would not be able to notify any difference in his emotions.
As days go, he will start to perceive his condition as natural or as his duties. It might be just giving up and following the rule. Whatever the reason might be, he would stop his expression of anger. He will calmly accept the requests. As he has changed to a person who do favors for others, the people around him would start requesting more things that include requests that can only be made between intimate relationships such as 'please evaluate my essay' not just 'can I borrow your eraser'. As he does those kinds of favors he will start feeling good of doing favors.
After 30 days, he would have discovered the pleasure of doing favor. However, this is totally based on my predictions and indeed the result would be different from what I expected.
Any nominees? Good idea. It reminds me of the Jim Carrie movie "Yes Man," of the famous Jesus Christ quote - "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you." But there are different kinds of favors - the ones we do knowing there will be a reward, the ones we want to do just because we enjoy it even without reward, and the ones we do just because we have to. Small favors add up though - very true. Good writing.
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