Needing a Reason to Feel

Humanity needs a reason to feel.

We watch all of these disasters happening in Japan and Haiti and THEN we react. Why don't we just go? For no reason? Why do we wait until the most destructive and awful things go wrong before we hold out the hand of charity? Why don't we, as a race of beings, just act so as not to cause reactions? Do we really need to see broken buildings and broken people, little children with no food, dense clouds of acrid black pollution in order to feel? To show emotion? To urge us into motion?

Humanity never does anything selfless. We all have motives behind every seemingly innocent action. Can we, as humans, possibly really FEEL an emotion without it being reactionary to something great or terrible? Can we feel just to feel? I very much hope so. If not, the world is on a downward spiral into a circle of hell that not even the devil himself could fathom.