Sharing is Loving

A lot of people say : I will believe in miracles until I see one.

Well, you don’t have to go that far to see that miracles happen all the time, everywhere, just around the corner; we just have to look…

 

And I am very lucky to say that my life, every second of it, is a miracle – and I thank my parents, God, Mother Nature, the Universe – whatever you call it – for this endless, unconditional love I received.

I was born in Vietnam twenty-four years ago, where my parents abandoned me as a baby. Not the best start in life, one might suppose : no parents, no love, no money, in a country still healing its wounds… but for me, it turned out not only well, but almost perfectly – contrary to many orphans in the world… and I think about them everyday.

 

So, I had this incredible luck to be adopted by magnificent people from the French countryside, and have lived in Paris ever since. They shared everything with me, supported me when I was desperate, bore with me when I was unbearable; they taught me how to be generous, kind and understanding; they were the parents everyone would love to have. They are not perfect of course; but they are full of love, and this alone is a gift in this splendid and cruel world.

 

This story, one amongst billions, is to me the perfect example of what it means to be human: we realize ourselves when we share with others, when we overcome our fears to discover the others, and therefore who we truly are – beings who seek happiness and well-being in an harmonious environment.

 

Sharing is loving; it is the purpose of my own life. I don’t see this life as a debt I have to give back, it isn’t something cold, economical that you can calculate with a machine – I see it as a gift I have to share, to help others healing from their own sufferings.

 

I understood, after years of an adolescence that when I was giving to others, I was already receiving. This simple act of helping embodies the very idea of humanity, emphasising the importance of acting as a community. We are a part of the same giant ecosystem that is this “pale blue dot”, as Carl Sagan used to call it, drifting in this infinite universe. We only have this world, just as we only have this life. We must protect them both, enrich them with beauty, and thus love.

Of course today, in the system we live in, this philosophy is not favored– on the contrary. Individualism and division, selfishness and egotism are the values we’re pushed towards. Because it seems that humans are more and more individually self-centered, we can think that the cause is lost, and that none of us are empathetic, generous and caring.

 

But nothing is more wrong than this illusion. We are many: many who desire to help, to share, and to love. Each of one us can make a change, a simple change that can have enormous, positive consequences for many people around us – and even far away. That is why sharing is loving : because this love goes beyond all barriers and all borders.

 

We have a dream; this dream is called Love. And this Love is more and more accomplished everytime we share with others.