Jahmal Cole has taken it upon himself to maintain his neighborhood and to help the people in it. As snow piled up in that neighborhood, he realized that a large number of elderly people were unable to shovel it away. And so he put out a request for volunteers to bring their shovels on a Saturday morning.

He asked for 10 volunteers; 65 showed up, some of them traveling a significant distance.

Here again we see the inherent decency of people, once they see a clear opportunity to do something good… to pull goodness out of themselves, rather than merely reacting to the prodding of guilt. And our race does have goodness inside of it… nearly all of us do.

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Now, before going back to the mundane, please remember some good thing you did: some benevolent  act you undertook because you wanted to, and not because someone pushed you into it. Try to recover the feelings you had, and spend a moment with the fact that without being forced, you genuinely enjoyed creating benefit in the world.