How does caring for others enrich my life?

It’s not our hand that uplifts, when it’s outstretched to help another? Those who volunteer strongly know this. When I was 16 I decided I was done supporting la machine’s cannabalizing all life and the Earth to replicate itself; dirty $ can’t be cleaned, etc.- to serve life, etc.. I gave up an apt., most of my stuff and a $400. + % per week job as a manager with a $ 300. a month adv. budget, to volunteer for a community center for the lower-middle-class to poor with a women’s homeless shelter, daily soup kitchen, counseling, systems management and referrals, community newspaper, classes, etc., triple full-time, that’s right, 120 hours per week, seven days a week. I couldn’t have done that at all, let alone as well as I did, if it were just me, a 16 year old; it was more than me, every moment of everyday- still feel the blessings I felt then. Some might say, ‘well, your d at 60, so, you s’d up’, ‘you should’ve worked smart not hard’, etc., well I worked smart and hard, would do it again- and the shortness of my life is due to the fact that I, as well as the evolution and real left, are the only real competition la machine has. So, ‘no good deed goes unpunished’, times a million; and you get the picture? It’s elemental, walking in nature’s balance, giving back to her abundance (infants naturally do it), yet, it’s also mystical, spiritual, etc.. Thanks for all you All do; have a good day 🙂 reality