Rabbi Shais Taub: How You Can Change the Life of a Complete Stranger

there was a forensic psychologist for the san francisco police department jerome motto he did an interview in the new yorker magazine and he spoke about the fact that he used to do the forensic work when people would jump off the golden gate bridge unfortunately is very common and look at people's history and their background to see what happened right before they jumped so he said he got so used to this he saw so many hundreds of jumpers that he became numb to it he said there was one story that shook him and he could never shake it loose he said one night they found a jumper and they went they they found id they went back to the the guy lived they found an address they walk into the house they found a note on the dresser he said i've seen that a hundred times i know it on a dresser nothing new but then i read the note and it completely shook me to my core it said i'm walking to the bridge now if one person stops me on the way and says hello i'm turning around and coming home do not underestimate the fact that you can be that person for somebody else you can be the one who cares you can be the one who reaches out to somebody else to the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world