Freedom

 You cannot be generous unless you are free.  If you are locked into, fettered to, “getting what is mine” or “getting all you can get,” then you are not free to ensure that everyone has something, a piece of whatever you think is “all yours.”  I find people go to recovery meetings to stay sober by attending and listening and maybe share in the meeting.  Then they leave.  They do not welcome the newcomer, or spend time asking others if they can be of some help.  They don’t giveaway the sobriety that they have.  Some people hoard more than they really need of things such as food.  They don’t care much for sharing with someone who might be as hungry as they were before they stuffed themself.  You see this at a social event where the food is “free.”  They just keep eating until there is no more of whatever they are eating.  They are prisoners of greed and selfishness.  Generosity, thinking of others is when you know you are free.