Yesterday I was surfing around Hive for something to read and came across a post by a young farmer from the Philippines. He shared about how he was trying to scratch a living in a quiet little corner of his beautiful country. I reblogged his post but wished I could have done much more.
This is why I've always dreamed since I was a kid of becoming a billionaire and spending the rest of my life giving most of it away to deserving people out there in this big, but sometimes troubled world.
I'd drop in on Hive posts (many whose authors live in developing countries), read their stories, and with a click of the mouse, just drop them 10,000 HIVE. That could make a big difference in far-flung corners of the globe, where in some areas the annual salary equals roughly a dollar a day.
So a "little bit" can go a long way.
This has echoes of the post I wrote yesterday about Legacy, and wanting to leave a positive wake behind me when I shuffle of this mortal coil. So my message to readers is to do as much good as you can because you never know when your time is up.
Part of this also stems from learning about the sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at 47. Seeing his gaunt appearance in his last video and reading that he was limited to just one loaf of bread per month birthed a thought: DAMN! Why did he return?
I remember discussing him with my Russian classmates, and the other guy who was murdered on a bridge. Nobody should die that young, but he preferred to return and fight rather than enjoy a comfortable exile in the west as others have done.
And that's when you realize you want to do something rather than just taking up space on the globe to live out what you truly believe in.
You may not be able to do big things, but every small act of kindness helps. So while I can't drop 10K HIVE here and there (at least not YET :), I can highlight a post so that it gets the exposure that it deserves. If we all do that one little thing, they will all add up something of consequence when needed the most.
