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Our world keeps on be tormented and destabilized by the extreme differences in the distribution of richness among people; some persons have too much, while too much people have too little or nothing , despite all their endeavours.

What too many people needs is not only simple money but also and more important, psychological help, company, medical cures, instruction, good advices and love. For this reason, I think that finding the generosity and, frequently, even the courage for giving the others what they need is surely better than receiving rewards, prizes or gifts of whatever kind.

We can give what we can, not all we have until falling in ruin for it, because helping the others mustn't depend only on the sacrifice of few "heroic" or "saint" singles, but on modest contributions from many people because generosity must be a value for the widest number of persons. It would be too little if the extreme generosity of relatively few persons helped the poor and needy people while all the others remain apart, only observing with admiration the generous man or woman but not doing or giving anything. Unluckily, this is just the most frequent situation, in the world.

Giving our help the poor and sick people, within asking anything in exchange finds its roots in the awareness that it's right, necessary, noble and possible to offer, at least, a bit of relief and happiness to whom have even forgotten what these words mean.

When we give help the others, what we really receive in exchange for it is the gratitude of the persons we have helped (who, sometimes, have only the strength of smiling to us) and the satisfaction of having resolved some of their problems.

Mother Teresa, the great missionary woman, dead some years ago, assisted and gave shelter and cures to the poorest and ill people of India with her sisters of the missionary religious order she had founded. Frequently, she couldn't help these persons to heal, but only accompany them toward their death, but she offered them the chance of a serene death, with somebody close to them, the comfort of some words and their hand hold by a friend. It can appear little, but it was enough to make them smile, much better than finding a miserable death in the dirt and loneliness of the miserable streets in India and in all the big towns of the Third World.

For Mother Teresa, this smile or whispered "thank you" was the best reward, as she said in a documentary on her life, with the security of having made something useful. She couldn't

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