if you go to railway station of small towns you would see that there are few benches, maybe 3-4 trains in day and people come well in advance of the train time most often with a lot of relatives who have come to drop them off. They will sit their talking, eating and enjoying the non-arrival of train.

contrast that with big city stations we as individual rush to the station few seconds before the train arrives, and track each second the train is late, impatient and worried.

fast forward few more years, and both the city dweller who was rushing most his life and the villager who lived through it both are old. One might be rich with money, and another would be rich with his good stories that he would be telling his grand kids. What do you chose?

"ECONOMIC THEORY DID THE WRONG THING by imagining human beings as money-making robots. If economics is to be useful to the world, it must start by acknowledging that human beings are also interested in helping other people." - Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, is the founder of the Grameen Bank.

So true, and so well said. It is not only applicable to economic theory but everything else I can think of. We have devised every system around money, companies, countries, schools - everything has a gross value computed in money. Is it what we are, off course not. It is not what defines human and everything that we have. There is no dollar value to the pure joy of helping others succeed in their dreams, and the support need not be financial.

Even if you say, "I believe in you", it goes a long long way.

"phir wo junoon chahiye,
jeetne ko taiyaar hoon duniyaa phirse

baajoon mein jor hain ab bhee,
honsalein aaj phir hain buland"

I want the same passion back as I am ready to win the world again,
My arms are strong and am filled with confidence and enthusiasm.

Their is a famous sufi story about miracles that I read yesterday in Idries Shah's book.

One of the famous sufi, Rabia, once while cooking realized she did not have onions. She is supposed to have said - "I want onion" and there was spring of onion that fell from the sky. Seeing this people said, this is a miracle.

Rabia said, if that is miracle what is the fact that god created onion shops for us to get onions.