Dr. Vivek Murthy

We need to build relationships with others.

We need to serve others.

We need to find purpose.

in lifting each other up and improving each other's lives.

It doesn't mean life is easy.

It doesn't mean there's no adversity, but it does mean that we find and access a deeper well of peace and fulfillment that we all crave as human beings.

And so when I think about the world that I want my children to inherit, the world that I want all of us to claim as our own,

I think about a people-centered world where our individual actions in our lives, the choices we make about where we put our time and attention and energy, the choices we make about how we raise our kids are oriented around how to optimize relationships, service, and purpose in their life.

I think about a world in which our kids, when they go to school, they learn about people

who have built their lives around relationships, purpose, and service.

They learn the value of those elements.

They work together to actually create lives, engage in service projects, do the kind of work that'll help create fulfillment.

I think about workplaces that emphasize the same, about policymakers who recognize that the infrastructure for building relationships, social infrastructure, if you will, is something that we've got to invest in.

And they put that forward because they realize that's an important part of building relationships.

the foundation for any healthy community.

So that is my dream of what I hope that we can move toward.

And to me, it's more than a single program.

It's more than a single issue.

And I think at the end of the day, when we think about that moment where we're sitting on our rocking chair, hopefully looking back on a fulfilled life, when we're reflecting about what made that life so fulfilling, what we will likely reflect on is what many of the people who I've cared for

over the course of their lives, at the end of their life, reflect on as well, is they reflect on the people.