That would certainly be a Shinto interpretation, at least in my understanding of it.
As you write, “Those of us who believe we are interconnected will act in accordance, reaching out to help those who suffer, knowing from experience or expectation that our own turn will come.” That is, like a yin-and-yang figure, life consists of light and shadow (see post in View from the Woods), happiness and sorrow, feast and famine, all the opposites. None of us is above it all, none of us is immune. We think so at our peril.
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