growing up?

well, here I am again. And I have something to talk about! (for a change)

well, it's actually, feelings that I didn't have before (now, now, don't get the wrong idea here). I mean, nowadays, when I see someone inexperienced, or say, unskilled, I now get a natural desire to help him/her.

Now, I don't mind. It's only that I don't understand what, or why this feeling exists. I mean, I helped out a fella yesterday. He was new to basketball, and so I taught him the ropes. It was only later, that I wondered..."why did I do that?"

It's now become a part of me. And all I can do is wonder why...

Is it a part of growing up? Having more skill, we have a natural desire to impart it to others?
or is it pity? that having suffered the same inexperience, we don't want someone else to go through the same trouble?

I think, it's the latter. Coz somewhere, down inside, we all wished that someone had been there to help us....
and now, we are trying to be that someone...for another person.

Or is it something else?