The cycle is complete. This connection between giving and receiving is fundamental to life. What is waste to animals is essential to plants, and vice versa. Our own taking from and giving to life is just as intimately connected. We seem to be students of those who know more than we do, doers with those who know just about as much as we do, and teachers of those who know less than we do.
Life is a process of doing, learning, enjoying, and teaching.
In ten minutes on the job, you might learn how to transfer a call on the new phone system, consult with a co-worker on a method for increasing sales, and teach someone how to load paper into the copy machine. The child we are teaching to read and write is, in the same moment, teaching us innocence and wonder. Because giving is a natural part of life. If we're lost and somebody puts us on the right track, that feels good, too. Receiving is also a natural part of life.