When you peel back and push away all the surface glaze about the need to give back to others to make one's life meaningful and rewarding, there are two salient points to be made.
First, it is good to give back money, time, sympathy etc. to the community and those in need. Do this in the future as you have in the past.
The primary means of giving back to the community is the indirect route. This is where you take direct and excellent care of yourself, first. If you are self-realizing, working, managing your affairs well on your own in a perfect, enjoyable atmosphere of personal liberty, then you are a burden to none, and the world has one less person to worry about and fend for.
If 85% of adults would self-realize, almost all social and poverty problems would simply disappear. This way need dries up, and you are not interfering in someone else's life, mucking up their chances, while eviscerating your own chances at progressing.
The indirect way of giving back is the only, lasting effective way of providing charity to others, of giving back. Get out of their way: let them work it out and solve their own problems.
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