Other's - Help

This is an opinion (just like everything on this space)

There are a lot of "Self-Help" books being written around and it has turned into a full-fledged genre of writing for a lot of people who have great advices, stories and anecdotes to narrate. The problem however, is that the genre has very quickly become saturated and overhyped with everything being generalized and that too in such a way that every self-help books sounds & looks the same at the surface level; sometimes even at the deeper levels of the texts.

Self help has gone far from being a 'getting to know yourself' kind and this shift in perspective of writing makes no sense whatsoever because the genre that was supposed to set itself apart from other genres and was supposed to be a huge middle finger to all the novels/novellas for being stereotypical and monotonous in their approach and now these self help books have itself turned into something of a staple advice, sure-shot insecurity hitting, money making machine of books. The way people talk about it is what drives me nuts further regarding these books because people behave as if the book has all the answers they were looking for and how the advices in the book(s) has changed their way of thinking, living, hell, even breathing for god's sake! At first I thought that the people who mindlessly wrote these books are nuts, but as I unravel further, I realized that the people who bought into the same bullshit through numerous titles are even bigger nutjobs from up there.

That's why, I've decided that I want to write and start a genre called "Other's Help" which can serve as a segment for books that talk about how to help others, because that's one of the main reasons why self-help books became popular, right? So that we can gain enough knowledge about humans and help our fellow humans? Now, I'm just cutting the middleman out and starting a genre in itself that talks about helping other people! Do we or do we not feel like helping other people out when we start reading any kind of self-help books? So, how about we just learn about how to help other people instead of going round in a circle, talking about discovering ourselves first and helping people out later, because we clearly aren't interested or excited about knowing more about ourselves (because if we did, we'd be way better than what we think we are right now)

All I'm saying is that this could turn out to be like a mini revolution in itself, right? To write something that is specifically aimed at making us understand how to help other people because a lot of dimwits are anyways knee deep into other people's business, so might as well give them something that makes their snooping around fruitful. Win - Win, right?