You were talking earlier about how so many bad people become teachers and equally, you know, earlier you used to think that social media brings out the worst side of people. But now I think it also empowers the worst among us. But a counter to that way of thinking about the world actually comes from thinking about generosity from something you were saying earlier. My friend, Prem Parnicker once told me this really moving story. I think he along with Paul Salupik and a couple of others, even in this long walk through India. Paul Salupik was walking a bunch of continents, but Prem was walking with him through India and at one point they reached this village and they were given shelter in the home of this person who was there who then disappeared for two hours. And they were wondering what happened? Where's he gone? What's the matter? And then the guy came back with a meal for them and they discovered that this guy because of a guess wanted to feed them chicken, wanted to feed them a good meal. So he went to the money lender to buy you, to borrow money so he could buy your chicken and he could get it for them. And I mean the story, I don't remember the specific details, but it's something of this. And I've heard so many like countless stories of generosity from strangers across cultures. Oh yeah. Who will just fucking help? This is amazing. And that makes me think about the human spirit because if you go on social media, if you look at all the shouting that's happening, you might think that fuck, you know, human nature is ugly, it's messed up. But then there is this also and it's like magical.

I had my life saved on the Margan Pass up north. My friend and I set out on this trek and we were invincible and we got up to this place with just our sweaters and suddenly nightfall fell and we couldn't see anything. And we were on this rock. I remember being on this rock and this rock was like precipitous at an angle and it was like a moonless night and we were starting to freeze and we had no idea where we are. And we had to grip onto this rock to stay on this rock.