Recently, I heard a true story about an 8 year old girl who gave away all of her toys and some of her clothes after a sermon that was preached by a pastor in church about the importance of giving. This is not just important spiritually but it is also significant in real world we dwell in. I am not by any chance trying to question your religious belief but I am trying to highlight the fact that you could have been a starving child in Somalia but fortunately your not. I am trying to encourage people to give as much as they can. Some of us can afford to live our lives more decent perhaps the point to ponder remains. Do you even think about others? I mean, the idea of giving is imbedded with the fact that do you even think about other people or you are just a selfish looser who cares nothing about others but him/herself?
Give because you understand that those poor people did n't choose to be poor, they did n't choose to be born in dismal and degrading conditions. Those kids did n't choose their parents. Recently, I was watching a TV series known as America's Got Talent when this other three kids where asked that "what would they do if they win the competition because the price is 1 million $ dollars and they respond was "We would buy a big house and put lot of toys for all those kids who don't have parents". By the way these kids I am talking about, their 5, 6 and 7 years old. If kids who don't even have anything wants to give, what about us who have something? Do we even think about giving or not.
We have so much things going on in our lives, we buy and throw away everyday. Even if we have enough we are still afraid to give. If your own neighbor sleep without a proper meal and your not even willing do to something about it, who has to? If your neighbor kids goes to school bare footed even in winter season and you get to see it everyday even though your kids have more than one pair of shoes, and you don`t feel any sign of sympathy including a sense of assisting them. Instead we call them names, treat and dehumanize them through gossip. We call them names instead of sharing the little we have with them. You don't have to be Bill Gates to give to people. Let us stop this selfish and dehumanizing act and start to help each other. The only time you should be looking down to someone is when you are picking them up. Let us not judge them, calling them names, distancing ourselves from them and start to love them because at the end of day, their human beings and they don't choose what is happening in their life's. There is nothing much they could do if their own neighbor’s look down to them.
Lastly, I read a story about a journalist known as Kevin Carter who killed himself. It is along the lines of failing to assist people. The haunting photo of a vulture stalking an emaciated Sudanese girl who'd collapsed on her way to a feeding station won photographer Kevin Carter a Pulitzer Prize in 1994. Carter also become notorious for sticking to the journalistic principle of being an observer and not getting involved -- he left after taking his photo and neither he, nor the New York Times, which first published the photo on 26 March 1993, knew what happened to her. (Looking at the photo, it's hard to imagine a pleasant ending.) A few months later after collecting his Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide, the violence he'd encountered in his life as a journalist, especially in South Africa, becoming too much to live with. This story is demoralizing thus I would n`t like to discuss it feather and the picture is above to see.
It is really up to you…I can do so much.
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