Deep gratitude to so many of you, and particularly Sheetal-bhai, Khush di, Mumbai meals on wheels team for showing me the way.
Inspired from mumbai meals on wheels, We've recently started to incorporate circles into our weekly Meals on Wheels volunteering -- and again this week, we all felt like the whole experience went deeper. A volunteer shared how he was touched by statement of a homeless person when he said, "My hair have gone white from black but not once in my life someone spent time with us and had a meal with us."
I don't feel that we're doing something very great, but with the idea of circles we are able to look at a human being as a human being, with the idea of circles we are not holding space not just for the homeless but also for ourselves. It's no more 'we doing for them', but its more of 'we doing for all of us'. And again, as I always feel, it's selfishness in me that wants to serve others. I'm curious what would happen is this selfishness ceases to exist someday! Till then, Circles ki jai, Sheetal bhai ki jai, aap-sab ki jai. :)
Oh, and we've just put up a detailed guide for running Karma Meals, so anyone can do this in their locality. (By the way, we just came up with the new name -- how does it sound?)
Thank you all for your immense support.
Inspired from mumbai meals on wheels, We've recently started to incorporate circles into our weekly Meals on Wheels volunteering -- and again this week, we all felt like the whole experience went deeper. A volunteer shared how he was touched by statement of a homeless person when he said, "My hair have gone white from black but not once in my life someone spent time with us and had a meal with us."
I don't feel that we're doing something very great, but with the idea of circles we are able to look at a human being as a human being, with the idea of circles we are not holding space not just for the homeless but also for ourselves. It's no more 'we doing for them', but its more of 'we doing for all of us'. And again, as I always feel, it's selfishness in me that wants to serve others. I'm curious what would happen is this selfishness ceases to exist someday! Till then, Circles ki jai, Sheetal bhai ki jai, aap-sab ki jai. :)
Oh, and we've just put up a detailed guide for running Karma Meals, so anyone can do this in their locality. (By the way, we just came up with the new name -- how does it sound?)
Thank you all for your immense support.
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