“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
Anne Frank
If you smile at somebody on the street, does it cost you anything? That is, when the transaction is over, are you left with less than you started?
Of course not.
Okay, but what about the other person? Do they gain anything from your smile? Are they better off than they were before?
Yes, they are.
You can choose to make life really complicated. You can obsess over what is yours and what is not and who deserves your generosity and who doesn’t…
Or you can base your life around these sorts of transactions – the kind where you give whatever you have, even if it is just a smile, and are better off for doing so.
You are richer for giving, not for receiving.