Share or Die

I chose to write about how the author came up with the title Share or Die. The author met a homeless man and gave him three dollars. The homeless man askedhim what he did for a living and he told in he wrote about state or die. The homeless man said that he understood and if people didn't share with him that he would die. That got the author really thinking about his purpose. Jeff, the author, said that a year earlier, his girlfriend drank herself to death alone in a motel room. He said she wouldn’t have died had someone been with her. For him, isolation equaled death. Jeff explained his perspective further, that he had no problem giving his last dollar or cigarette to a friend, that it comes back when you need it. But there are those who just take. You stay away from them. The conversation with Jeff marked a turning point in his thinking. He had thought of sharing as merely smart because it creates positive social, environmental and economic change through one strategy.
That is how the title was created and the basis and outline of the book of essays.

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