Persons of the Year!

I was doing a very intellectual thing today. I was actually reading TIMES magazine, as opposed to reading some thrashy girly magazine, filled with aneroxic women in beautifully expensive clothes.

The issue I was reading was about the TIMES magazine Persons of the Year, so named because of all the good they're doing for the poor and starving and the dying all around the world, and they are, in no particular order, Bono (the musician!), and Bill Gates and his wife Belinda Gates.

So half the issue was about all the wonderful things that they are doing with their millions, to feed starving children, providing healthcare for those who are dying and for those who can't afford it, and other great things as well.

Much as I applaud them for the efforts at making the world a better place, I also think, with that amount of wealth, they ought to be shot if they weren't making some attempt to allievate the sufferings of the many that are suffering and dying!

With all that money, it isn't difficult to do stuff like feeding starving children, providing relief to disaster struck areas etc etc etc. Heck, with that amount of clout and money behind me, I will want to make sure that I am doing all of what they're doing, and more if possible! (Somebody please make sure I do it, and not become swollen-headed and full of myself, and use my money to fill a swimming pool with Dom Perignon when I become rich!)

The thing is, without much money, are you still able to do something to make a difference in this world?! The test of a man, is not what he does with the much that he possesess, but what he makes of the little that he has.

You don't need to be a millionaire to be able to spend some money on buying school books for a child who cannot afford it? Are you waiting to strike the lottery so that you can not work and spend some time doing social work? Or are you already spending a couple of hours every weekend, giving tuition to kids who need help with their school-work? Instead of lamenting that you have to work, and can't afford to take time off to go help out at some disaster stricken area, you can jolly well just spend some time with a friend who's ill in hospital, and desperately needs some form of cheering up and encouragement.

Come on! Look around you and see what you can do! If you cannot do anything with what little resources you have now, you won't be doing anything much even if you had millions in your bank, even if you do have it.

If you see a need today, just fill that need! And you'll be a Person of the Year too, together with Bono and the Gates, just not in TIMES magazine that's all! (Hahah!)