The third assumption is that we connect with others out of a spirit of generosity. We want to help them before asking them for anything in return.
There was a movie from the 1990s I think, called Pay It Forward. It came out in the couple of years after Mad About You, one of my favorite TV programs of the time, when Helen Hunt was very popular and seemed to be in every movie that came out. She and Kevin Spacey, and the kid who also made the Sixth Sense.
Anyway, she played an alcoholic Mom with a jerk of an ex-husband who showed up every now and then promising Eden, then disappeared just as fast after abusing and beating both of them, leaving her in hell. Kevin Spacey was a burn victim and the kid's middle school teacher.
He talked about pay it forward in class and then gave the kids the assignment of paying three things forward, under the assumption that they would do acts of kindness. The movie then traced what the result of that was.
It's a little like that. Pay it forward by approaching others in a spirit of generosity and good will and you will receive riches beyond your wildest dreams.
I'm trying to improve people's connecting. Is this helpful?
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