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Let me tell you about my mom. My mom’s the one who said, Ron, you know, life is about once you get there and serve the whole world. She can say it that way, she demonstrated it to me with her life.

That’s my mom at seven years old. That’s her immigrant card at Ellis Island. Those of you who know Ellis Island in New York. It’s where every immigrant would enter the United States during that time and the year was 1938. 

Well, in 1938 If you’re coming out of Germany, Hitler’s coming to power. That’s not a good time to be a Jewish person over there and it’s seven years old. She got out, didn’t speak English, but came to the United States. Most of the rest of the family, except for the durex, didn’t make it, that’s called Auschwitz. 

If you haven’t been there to see a gas chamber, you need to go, so you get a sense of how stupidly bizarre humans can be, unless we bring the best of ourselves out and help each other bring the best of themselves out. Connect the history that you love with the story that you live and the future that you create.

Mom didn’t hang on to that, like, oh, what happened to the family members and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, there was a wound. You get hurt in life. You get wounded, you get cut? You like it, no. What happens? You bleed? Every single one of us as human beings is going to get hurt. 

That’s part of being a human being, right? You might…oh, this bad thing happened. Oh, I didn’t expect that. Oh, somebody betrayed me. And what do you do? You bleed until it becomes a scab, right starts to heal over and what’s a scab like? Oh don’t touch it. Oh, It doesn’t look pretty. Oh, I don’t like it. But eventually if you take care of it, a scab will heal and become a scar. 

Think about scar tissue. It’s tougher, right? It’s like a broken bone when it heals. It’s actually stronger. So there may be something in your history where you go, Oh, I don’t love that. What I’m saying is “But You Can!” You can look back and say “No, that was a horrible thing. happened to me”. You look back and say, “that’s part of what happened to me”.  

Do something with it. Like mom did. Serve the world. She taught high school for 20 years. Then she was a travel agent, sending people around the world for 20 more years. And so that’s what I do.