The Charity Business
It struck to me yesterday when i was enjoying my KFC during lunch outside of office. While having the snack plate, and cheated a bit with a cheezy wedges, hehe, i was rudely disturbed by a young man, who wanted to collect donation for a house.
Now in Malaysia, this sort of thing is really commonplace. You can see people coming up to you asking for donations for certain houses, associations, the special people, so on and so forth. Though common, I can attest to this.
You do not disturb people with other matters when you are eating.
Honestly where the hell is manners? You don’t talk about stuff like that on the table. You don’t talk about saving the world, giving help. You talk on the things that makes you feel being with people in the world. Being with your loved ones, having a great day with each other. But you see, this is what happens in the cultural society today, where people beg for "help" I’ll explain later on that.
Another thing that makes me ponder also is the people who sell pirated CD’s. I wouldn’t mind if they decided to have a booth (but still, if u kena tangkap, your problem) to sell, but to approach at others in makan stalls? Do people not know what it means by rudely disturbing others good time with their meal? Food is to be enjoyed to the maximum point of its taste, using ur brains to feel every single flavor, and not to be interrupted by the next Dark Knight movie or whatever. That’s purely crap.
Regarding the "help" i said, you see the thing is, there is actually no reason for the houses to find and beg for charity. There is so many other channels (cue government) to request money from. In fact, if you do realize it, the people who lived in such houses by far live even better than most of us who work like hell to get money (cue drum set). There is a scenario, where they believe that the money has really ran out, but if u asked me, special people are also people. With proper education, a job to help around not just in the house, but also as a small business, there shouldn’t be any begging for charity. For example, the states are great enough to utilize the orphans as people who may well do business to gather money for their house. The girl scout’s cookies worked, why shouldn’t it do for us?
Begging is really the easy way out isn’t it? Then I guess its no more charity then, it is defined as forced to cough up cash. If you see it in people, the eyes, the face, most of those people who do pay, are the ones who have in their mind "get away from my meal". But the collectors don’t care, because they want to force you.
I said no yesterday. Not only that, upon adding a few more words that he did not listen to at all, he immediately followed such a scripted way of talking. And his facial expression does not show at all that it is hard to approach to someone to talk to. What are you looking for kid?
In the old days, those who were lazy were the ones who were not anywhere in possession of wealth. Those who did something, they earned and lived well in their life. As for me, I wouldn’t know what else is there left for me to say on what gives on these certain types of people. I would like to suggest that they do stop begging and provide a service for people. There are lots of services in this world that we can relate and work together to build a better economy and a harmounious surrounding. Over there where we will see charity, and ikhlas. That is true charity.
Hope the world grows up with me on this.
Much Love, Azlil.Ash
