A tour guide in Cambodia, a Vietnam War veteran who lost his family, was earning $20 per tour. The speaker gave him $1,000 and a hug, his first ever. They've stayed in touch through holiday messages ever since.
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people that say money doesn't buy happiness haven't given enough away yet. Dude, there's something about giving money away to people that is just so incredible. In Cambodia, our tour guide for all the temples was this guy that was in the Vietnam War, lost his entire family, whole village destroyed. He then went to the military, was in the military for like 7 years. He ate snakes and rats and whatever he could find in the jungle, slept on a hammock for, you know, you know, 4 or 5 years of his life and now humbly doing tour guides for this hotel. I know he's not getting paid that well, made, probably made like $20 on our tour. In fact, I only had like $1,000 cash, gave it to him and I gave him a hug. And it's crazy, this guy to this day will write me for Christmas, Thanksgiving. The other day he wrote me just, you know, thinking of you, Alex, hope all is well. Because it wasn't even the money, like his message he sent me after was like, Alex, nobody in my life has ever given me a hug. The very first thing he thought about, like nobody like has ever given me a hug. It's ¡Increíble!