contributing, n.All

Contributing is the whole point of life — we are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Contributing is everything — it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. The world must be a better place for your presence.

Contributing is tantamount to living — when you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Contributing is done by both optimists and pessimists -- the optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.