When people heal their own wounds through good relationships or therapy, they naturally want to help others. The speaker points to the Janet Druck Foundation and Global Bridge as examples of how personal wellbeing becomes generosity that reaches the world.
How does personal transformation translate into social responsibility, global awareness, global action? How does what we do here effect there? It's a great question. It seems like all of us have a very big young part of us that is needing something, wanting something feels incomplete. And if we don't personally take good care of that, we're always going to feel so unhappy. We're going to stay self centered. And so the personal growth really starts off and continues to care for the parts of ourselves that are most empty, that are most anguished, that feel most incomplete. And if we're lucky enough to have good parents or good counselors, or good friends or, or good teachers, and we have those parts taken care of, then we get to feel pretty good. And when we get to feel pretty good, it naturally has a spillover effect where we have the privilege of sharing the sense of well being with other people, which is the pinnacle of human existence. And what makes it so wonderful is it doesn't come from a place at all that thinks that we should. It comes from a sense of well being that can't do anything else but enjoy sharing it with others. And there's just a natural response that I'm feeling good, so I really wish you felt good. And then that leads to things like your foundation, the Janet Druck foundation, or Global Bridge, our foundation, where we organically derive our greatest joys from being able to support others. And it is a privilege. It really is a privilege. Because it's like it doesn't get any better than being in a position where you have enough for yourself not only in money, but also in internal and external support for our wounds. And we have some mirroring around us of people that are compassionate and kind and warm and are interested in what we're going through. And then that just so leads to, well, who doesn't have that? And then we look around and we recognize 98% of the world doesn't have that. And we get to be the ones that were born in life conditions that didn't have mandatory survival. And we recognize it's not because we're so wonderful, it's because we were blessed enough to be in conditions where we had enough money. We had the opportunity to be educated, we had the opportunity to have people that were good friends and we didn't have to constantly worry about is there enough food to survive or are the guns going to hit us. So the relationship is that it's truly a gift of life to be able to be in a position to be generous. Generosity we don't deserve in a sense any credit for it. It's like we're blessed, and so we're just passing on the bless.
