“Can I get a light?”This question is the commonest among smokers. What if this question is to come from an unusual source? The National Health Promotion Foundation uploaded an anti-smoking advertisement onto YouTube. The anti-smoking ad has quickly been known as the“most powerful anti-smoking ad”.

The anti-smoking video, called the “Smoking Kid”, features children walking up to adult smokers asking for a light. The children in the ad are actors but the adults smoking are unsuspecting participants in the project.

The video begins with the statement “Adults know that smoking is harmful, but don’t remind themselves of this fact”. Once a “smoking kid” approaches the adults, every adult asked is shocked that the child with a cigarette in his hand is asking for a light. The first adult starts by saying “I’m not giving it to you” and the video goes on to state “every adult filmed said no and reminded the children that smoking is bad”.

Before going away, the kid hands each adult a booklet after being turned down for a light. The booklet says, “You worry about me, but why not about yourself?”Each adult looks around for the child as their faces are filled with confusion and discomfort.

The video shows that a few of the smokers quickly throw away their cigarettes or put their cigarettes away, showing that this experiment was effective at that moment.

The most influential element in the ad isn’t the use of children or the responses from the smoking adults. It comes down to something much simpler than that. Why is it that we worry about other people, forgetting to worry about ourselves?

   Nowadays，an increasing number of people are indifferent to others and unwilling to help others who are in trouble. In their opinion, what _______ is their own interests, and they are simply not _______ about whether those people live or die. How terrible the phenomenon（现象）is!However, I _______ believe that helping others is helping yourself in one way or another.

Then I will explain why helping others can _______ ourselves in more detail.

When you  help others, you will find yourself becoming confident. Take myself as a（n）________ .

When I was a little girl, I dared not talk with others and I preferred staying _______ . One day in an art class, my deskmate _______ to bring color pens, then I _______ lent her mine. She appreciated my help but was _______    because I rarely talked. After that, she often chatted with me and helped me become a（n）________ girl, and she also helped me when I was in trouble. There is no ________ that we became best friends. What benefited me most was that I gained confidence and was willing to ________ others. If I hadn't lent my color pens to her, she might have been punished by the teacher, and I wouldn't have been confident so soon. Through this thing, I have come to ________ helping others is helping yourself in one way.

________ , when you help others, you will feel very pleased. As the Chinese old saying ________ ，“Fragrance（香味）will be reserved in your hand when you present others with roses. ”________ someone meets with some difficulties, then you come to help him. “Thank you”will make you feel that you have done a rewarding thing and your ________ is much more than the person who gets your help. What a wonderful thing it is!

From what have been discussed above, we can safely arrive at the ________ that helping others is helping yourself. Helping others can1 not only bring others pleasure, but also bring ourselves pleasure and confidence. This time we helped others, maybe ________ when we are in trouble, others will help us. So we should try our best to form the habit of helping others. Only in this way can the world become warmer and more ________ .

Ways to Increase Your Confidence

There are some ways you can use to increase yourself-confidence. You’ll need to practise a lot before some of them start to work. It’s like playing the guitar or soccer. 【小题1】 But as you do them, you build deeper confidence in yourself.

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Exercise will improve your confidence and your way of looking at life. Plus, being healthy and looking better can also help you feel more confident.

Create something.

Everyone is a creative person. Rediscovering your creativity is a good way to improve your confidence in yourself. Creating something is a wonderful but not always easy experience. But when you’re done, you not only feel good about yourself. 【小题3】

Use your body.

If you start to walk fast you’ll soon start to feel nervous. If you start to walk slower you’ll soon start to feel more relaxed. To feel more confident, use your body in a more confident way. 【小题4】 Learn how confident people around you or on the TV use their bodies.

Compare yourself to yourself.

This will take away a lot of unnecessary pain in your life. 【小题5】 Compare yourself to yourself. Improve yourself and see how you grow and become a more successful, more confident and happier person.