What binds us as a community? We believe, it starts with strong family bonds and positive values that are passed down from generation to generation. Watch Hakim’s journey as he learns about kindness and giving.
The Gift of Giving
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Surely the family is the first place where the sense of belonging is experienced. In fact, in our family we felt more or less included, we experienced more or less a sense of unity. Being a member of a family group means having a shared identity and communicating feelings of solidarity and unconditional acceptance. The family gives a feeling of security, a sense of stability, protection and sharing. Each family experience is a story of relationships, built around a life project, related to a cultural, social, economic and political context.
Feeling that you belong to a community serves to improve your relationship life, to feel useful, to be accepted and to improve in comparison with others. Belonging only to the family can be limiting: it is true that there are objective difficulties, which lack the time or energy to devote to sociality, but sometimes these represent only excuses to escape relationships that are as satisfying as demanding and tiring. Connecting with other people means accepting the rules for being in a group, having to ask, knowing how to listen, taking responsibility, feeling duty-bound, facing conflict, taking on roles, facing judgment.
Absolutely beautiful! We learn some of the most important lessons through the acts of kindness. When done from the heart the value is seen. Even without volume, this video shows kindness. That’s how loud it can be! Thank you for sharing this.