A couple of years ago,
when I was upset
about all the bad in the world,
I decided to start
doing something good
every time
I heard about something bad.
This good deed is often small.
I pick up a piece of garbage
at a nearby park.
I send a post card
to a senior citizen residence.
But it makes me feel better,
more generous,
and a strange thing also often happens
– good things come to me.
I help someone.
Someone else helps me.
I suspect this is because
helping someone
changes my attitude
and that new attitude
attracts good people.
“Often, we choose to be selfish
because we feel insufficiency.
“I don’t have that much,
how can I possibly share it?”
The insecurity that comes from
feeling like our foundation is weak
or our future is uncertain
can cloud our instinct
to be generous.
Like a drowning person,
we cling ever tighter
to the life buoy.
You see where this is going…
The single best way
to find sufficiency
and confidence
and trust
and forward motion
is to do precisely
the opposite of
what our instincts might tell us.
In an economy based on
connection, trust and attention,
the posture of generosity
is not only
the highest-yielding strategy,
it’s also the right thing to do.”
Consider doing something good
to benefit another person
or/and the world.