the true happiness

Wes Newell writes:

Still I chose to try and help others, ...
It's because I've come to realize, that the
only thing one truely has after death is the memories of others and I
want those memories to be happy ones.

And more fundamentally, many or most of us are genetically programmed to
help others, especially younger people, to an extent. We have the raw
impulse, and then attribute it to a god, among other devices.