Color Your Life Happy

I was having dinner with a friend who has been a lawyer for 30 years.  He told me about an experience he had as part of a panel speaking to an audience of new lawyers.

One of the young lawyers asked the panel, “What’s the best way that we as new lawyers can help the poor?”

“By not becoming one of them,” my friend fired back.

I laughed at this story, but he was so right.

It reminds me of the airplane safety message about putting on your oxygen mask first before helping any child traveling with you.

Many people are compassionate about helping others, but are in dire straits themselves. You can’t give others what you don’t have yourself.

So if you long to help the poor or anyone else be sure you have first attained what it is you want to give.