👆🏿An anthropologist

👆🏿An anthropologist once devised a simple game for children in an African tribe. He placed a basket of fruit beneath a tree and told them that whoever reached it first would win all the sweet rewards. When he gave the signal to run, the children didn’t race against each other. Instead, they joined hands, ran together, and reached the tree as one. Then they sat down and shared the fruit happily. Surprised, the anthropologist asked why none of them tried to win for themselves. The children replied, “Ubuntu—how can one of us be happy if the others are sad?” In their culture, Ubuntu means: I am because we are. Perhaps they understand something many modern societies have forgotten—that true happiness is found not in individual gain, but in shared joy.