Saying Thank You

If I am helpful to someone, but they do not come back and say, “Thank you,” it does not bother me, so long as they then go on to be helpful to someone else.  Passing it on is a wonderful way to say thank you.  We are supposed to make the world be a better place for love and kindness, not for making all the money we can make or having more and bigger stuff.  If someone says to me, “I don’t know how I can ever thank you,” I say to them, “Be helpful to the next person you meet who needs help.”  One of the saddest things is to see a parent be kind and loving to a child, only to have that child go out and become mean, unkind and ignoring of others who might need a little attention and love.  Children of privilege have this as the downside.  Privilege does not mean that you give of your surplus wealth, as in charity.  Yes, this is necessary for bare essentials, but the rich may never encounter the poor in this circumstance.  Love and kindness is for anyone who has a barren or broken heart, a loneliness that cannot be filled by anything but love.  This emptiness shows up in all economic circles.  Money and poverty share loneliness and pain.  Only the outer garments differ.