There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair were it won a blue ribbon.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.
The reporter asked, “how can you afford to share your best seed corn with your 
neighbors when they entering corn in the competition with yours each year?”
“Why sir“, said the farmer, did you not know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor’s corn also improves.
So it is in our lives. Those who choose to live in peace must help their neighbors to live in peace. Those who choose to live well, must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measures by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.
“There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth: and this that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to property. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.” – Proverbs 11:24-25