If you’ve got it to give, give it

In addition to the various philosophic outlets that my wife and I participate in through out the year both human and animal, the last couple of days leading up to Christmas we head to various markets in financially depressed areas and randomly pay for peoples groceries.

It’s an amazing opportunity to share your good fortune and the rewards of seeing the outcome on peoples faces is amazing. If your riding a 40k + bike, you’re doing better than most, go make a difference in someone’s day.

Now if only Elon Musk would give 44B to people that really need it instead of Twitter. What a difference it would make for a lot of people.

Jolly Roger V4 said:

Now if only Elon Musk would give 44B to people that really need it instead of Twitter. What a difference it would make for a lot of people.

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Musk is a ........

That be a true statement, Dumski for sure....

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone.

endodoc said:

In addition to the various philosophic outlets that my wife and I participate in through out the year both human and animal, the last couple of days leading up to Christmas we head to various markets in financially depressed areas and randomly pay for peoples groceries.

It’s an amazing opportunity to share your good fortune and the rewards of seeing the outcome on peoples faces is amazing. If your riding a 40k + bike, you’re doing better than most, go make a difference in someone’s day.

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Random acts of kindness give as much to the giver as it does to the Reciever.

I usually leave a few bucks for the ..... that come clean the room at the hotels I stay in for work, during the Holidays I up that to $100 bill.

Last Friday the .... chased me out to the car in tears thanking me, saying she drove to work not knowing if she had enough gas to get there much less get home. We had a good hug abd I gave her the rest of the cash in my pocket.

There are a lot of people in this world that work really hard that came from places that don’t allow for much opportunity to expand their vision, and their circumstances, a little boost goes a long way, and could be a turning point in their life.

Excellent, we’ll said. You’re a good man sir. I understand that unfortunately, most don’t have “extra cash”. Extra cash is like the Great Pumpkin to most people, it’s a complete fairy tail. Do what you can do, even little things can go a long way towards the positive psychology of an individual and sometimes, you find that diamond in the ruff that achieves extraordinary results with a little stimulus.

Paul G said:

Musk is a ........

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Figures you’d think so. lol

endodoc said:

Excellent, we’ll said. You’re a good man sir. I understand that unfortunately, most don’t have “extra cash”. Extra cash is like the Great Pumpkin to most people, it’s a complete fairy tail. Do what you can do, even little things can go a long way towards the positive psychology of an individual and sometimes, you find that diamond in the ruff that achieves extraordinary results with a little stimulus.

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As a rule of thumb I try to focus on helping people who are already trying to help themselves, I’ve made a career of it. If your already trying to help yourself chances are my help will be well spent and useful.

But I got a soft place for hard working Mom’s who’ve been dealt some bad beats in life.

craig bush said:

Figures you’d think so. lol

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Figured you'd be a fanboy, guess you're not watching his latest antics.

No one with half a brain is. We have better stuff to do like actually being present in our own lives.

Cheers to this thread. I took a couple years off once, started volunteering.
Found some very big issues close to home, the mayor's office had no game for so I ended up starting a non-profit and going after it.
We got very close to the inhabitants of the most impoverished neighborhoods in San Francisco Bay and the working poor. We fixed a lot of methods the city was using in dealing with the extreme neighborhoods. We're talking gangs, serious drug cartels, shoot outs in front of houses, kids getting run over by cars, foot deep trash blowing around, sewers running over onto sidewalks. I couldn't believe it was America. People had wrapped their houses in barbed wire for ....'s sakes.
It was all a big design problem to solve. 5 years later we had rebuilt 18 neighborhoods all funded by the feds, dropped crime to almost zero and turned a miserable place full of trash into a safe more beautiful and prosperous place full of micro parks. If you've been to SF and you've seen the micro-parks - this was the start of that.
I gave away a lot of time and money and it's still one of the very most favorite projects I've ever done. It's unbelievably satisfying putting skills to helping people.
Working with Gavin Newsom when he was SF mayor, I realized there really truly is no such thing as "the government." That is the number 1 biggest misnomer there is.
There are offices and individuals all competing & vying for position and power and money and each has its own ever shifting motives and incentives.
There really is no central body looking after us. That is absolute non-sense.
The only way to get anything done is show up, ask the right questions, and start outperforming everyone until they get the .... out of the way. Apply for funding and push every detail through every hour of every day. When you come up with answers and solutions, people start trusting you and want to be a part of it. You may find a crowd behind you willing to help and pitch in. I had around 35 architects and designers working for me for free. People just wanted to make .... happen. It was so awesome.
It started out, just walking into the mayor's office and asking, "What are the biggest problems in the city?" They had a list. Picked one.