Interdependence With Our Fellow Man

Yeah, we all have that in us. There's a. Have you ever heard a book called Paradise Made in Hell? It's about essentially, that. The value of natural disasters or people going through, like, times of war, 9, 11, or these seemingly terrible things. They end up snapping us back into reality of like, okay, you're my brother. Homeless guy on the street, or woman that I typically wouldn't talk to because she doesn't have enough Instagram followers. Or like, no, we're in this together.

Yeah, you know? Yeah, it's that. That feeling of inter dependence that.

Again, I realize I keep saying that the people don't do enough of this and people don't do enough of that, but I think that feeling of interdependence, whether.

It'S volunteering in your community or. Or making yourself dependent on others by asking for help, is again, something that. That's often neglected. I mean, this wonderful, wonderful feeling wash over me today. I told you, I stopped by the coffee shop on the way up here to grab a smoothie. And when I rode my bike in and docked at the coffee shop, there's a man in a wheelchair trying to get across the street.

And I see him over there, and we lock eyes, and he asked me.

If I could help him across the street. He said, can I have a push?

So I started pushing him and across the street. So I'm pushing this guy in a.

Wheelchair, and, you know, it's one of those homeless guys in Venice beach, and it looks like he's got all his world's belongings right there in the little, like, the little. What do you call it? Almost like a bicycle basket, but for a wheelchair. I don't know. Wheelchair basket, wheelchair basket, Carry your stuff around.

So I push. I push him across the street, and he's like, can you push me up that hill? Because the street starts to go up.

So I keep pushing him up the.

Hill, and then there's a full nother block. And at this point, I'm getting nervous because my bike is parked down at the coffee shop. My cell phone's just sitting in a basket in the back of the bike.

And I push him for a good.

Like, six minutes all the way to the.

To the Santa Monica beach.

And then.

He'S like, thank you. And that feeling washed over me. Okay, we're all interdependent humans. And then I turned around, just had to sprint, you know, back down to the coffee shop to make sure the.

Bicycle was still there.

But when you experience something like that.

And this is the same reason I do that, gratitude, practice in the morning of who is one person I can pray for or help or serve today?

You tap into that, that primal sense.

Of us all being on this planet as a tribe and interdependent on each other. And you know, in the same way that I think everyone should get sunlight or earthing or grounding or cold or heat or fresh air or any of these natural practices on a daily basis, I think everyone on a daily basis should figure out some way to go out of their way and help someone or just be helped themselves, be interdependent and express that vulnerability to others.