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Sugar: “Mind watching my car for me? I’ll give you a few hundred bucks.”
Homeless man: With a suspicious look: “Umm yeah, sure man.”
Sugar: “Great, all you have to do is stay here, watch the car, and call me if anything happens. Here’s a phone to call me on.”
‘hands him the phone’
Homeless man: “You got it! Thanks man!”
This quick relatively meaningless scene in the new Apple Tv show Sugar really stood out to me because the show is about a good man who’s job is to find lost people, which he enjoys, but also requires him to sometimes do ‘bad’ things to successfully complete the job.
He make’s a lot of money working for the rich, which is made clear because he’s driving around in a vintage Corvette stingray convertible.
But he likes helping lost people get found, and by this small interaction with the homeless man you can tell he enjoys it despite being paid large sums, he also is willing to help those that can’t afford him, and will even go so far as to use his own money to help them.
I’ll come back to this point in a minute, but first, purpose.
When Sugar gave this man a significant amount more money than necessary to watch his car, a seemingly pointless task, this simple gesture gave the homeless man a purpose, a reason for living, even if for just a few minutes.
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In the homeless mans reaction you could tell that’s all he was searching for, purpose. Sure, he was really excited about the few hundred dollars, but the gratitude that he showed was more about the responsibility of getting to watch the car, and being rewarded for doing so with the money.
Feeling valued.
When Sugar returns he gives the Homeless man the second half of the money then tells him to keep the phone and asks if he has any family alive.
The man say yes, and then sugar tells him to call them and that he’ll pay for his ticket to meet the family member wherever they are.
Helping this lost person get found…
With his own money, for no real reason other than to help someone out.
It doesn’t take much, but what sugar also did is gave him the opportunity, he didn’t force him to go home, which a lot of people might do. Sugar understood it had to come from within the man to want it.
What small deed can you do to help someone get found, what kind of opportunity can you provide others with what you currently have?
Or
If you’re lost, who can you reach back out to, so you can get found?