I had a friend over here in Japan (his name was Masaaki) who was a multi-millionaire, and who also had one of the biggest hearts of anyone I have had the privilege to know.
Masaaki took some time off from running his businesses and went travelling by himself but he would always update his friends via email to keep everyone in the loop.
After a few months he landed in India and after a week or so the emails stopped coming. We put it down to crappy Internet and figured he would contact us when he could. But a few more months went by and his best friend (who was also a fellow Internet Marketer) went searching for him. It took him roughly a month to find Masaki - he was lying half dead in a gutter in Calcutta.
The poverty and children begging on the streets had been too much for Masaaki. He gave away all the money he had with him to the children and when that ran out he withdrew all his money from the bank and gave them that as well...until he became homeless and on the verge of death himself.
After he recuperated and revived his passive income streams Masaaki disappeared again and the last time I heard he was funding a team of people to dig up landmines in Cambodia...and he himself spent most days digging them up too.
He couldn't bear to see children and animals maimed and killed by these extremely cruel weapons of war and dedicated himself to removing them and making the villages safer for the children to play in.
This man's incredible generosity and huge heart have always been an inspiration to me to keep going.
He believed that 'Charity begins at home' but once his Internet-based businesses made enough money to take care of his family and friends he devoted himself to taking direct action to help those less fortunate than himself.
I love you and I miss you brother...and thank you for being a beacon of light in this often greedy, and self-centered world.