Negativity and selfishness gets great publicity in our social networking, indirect-contact society. You’d be led to believe the world’s running low on good people and that no one cares for or respects one another anymore. Their only concerns are themselves; and when they’re in need, no one is willing to lend them a hand without reward.
This is not the case. Kind, caring, selflessly-generous people still exist. John “SohoJohnny” Pasquale is a shining example.
A philanthropic entertainer from the SoHo area of New York, Johnny’s a driving force behind preserving classic music. He famously uses these all-time great tunes to bring people together to help others in need. He hosts events for American Cancer Society, Meals on Wheels, and Humane Society among others, partnering with the biggest names in music to raise money for where it’s needed most.
Driven by the loss of his father to cancer and his mother to COVID-19, Johnny created “Let Me Help Inc.” – a non-profit to assist people hurt by debilitating life events.
I asked SohoJohnny to tell me about a time when he did something nice for someone that he didn’t know. Here’s what he shared.
“It could be as simple as someone hurting financially that you just go into your pocket and you’re trying to help any way you can. It doesn’t have to be grandiose. And it doesn’t have to identify with anyone else out there. It doesn’t matter. Let’s talk about something very simplistic.
I remember one time I left my house and there was this elderly lady, and she was just there. She was very elderly, probably toward the end of her life. I pray she could’ve had 30 or 40 years more, but … You know.
I said, ‘Hi, how are you doing? Are you having a nice day?” It was a cold day, but it was a beautiful day. I just struck up a conversation with her and I made her laugh. That simple thing was just putting her in a better frame of mind. That’s very simplistic.
Again, it doesn’t have to be grandiose. It doesn’t have to be this fantastic thing; you do a show and you affect so many people at once, or if you’re a rich person who can afford to give a lot of money away. All that’s great and all that’s beautiful. I take nothing away from that. But with anybody, we’re all role models to each other!
No matter who you are, what you have, or what you don’t have, you make an impression on the next person in some matter, shape or form!
When you walk out the door and you go out into the world, you’re interacting with other people. How you conduct yourself and what you say, try to have a moral compass. Those people are going to be affected by how you’ve interacted with them. I’ve helped people that were suffering. I cried with them. I was there for them.
We’re human beings. We’re flesh and blood. We don’t have to be supermen to have superpowers inside, which comes from the heart. |THIS.
[By Mr. Joe Walker]
“We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving.” – ‘We Are the World’
