How many of us really give a damn for the person next to us, the person in the next seat on the bus, the poor dying starving people in the next country?
There's so much talk about humanity and human rights and freedom of speech and liberty and all that crap. But seriously, most of us will not lift a finger to help the old lady with the groceries or lift our butts for the pregnant lady in the MRT trains.
Shame on us!
And I'm talking to myself as well.
For those of us who have a little spare cash (as little as US$25), and who want to do their bit to make this earth a slightly more humane place, go to kiva. org.
What Kiva does is to make use of the internet to connect with and loan money to small businesses all over the world, helping the poor work towards economic independence.
Business Nation was just showing how a paltry US$100 loan has managed to helped a Kenyan family out from the poverty trap, and into doing their own small business. They've upgraded from a mud hut held together with sticks, to a concrete house which has a gate. Still horrid by our standards, but to them it's a mansion.
So much for so little.
Now I call that an incredible bargain.
Well, I'm not saying that you all have to give away all your money after reading this.
But what I'm saying is this, just get out of your chair, and do something, anything for goodness sakes!
Donate blood. Give up your seat to the old lady. Give way to a frantically signalling car on the road. Smile at bus driver. Send somebody a smiley pleasant sms. Apologise to the person you should have apologised to 10 years ago. Kiss and make up with whomever you quarrelled with. Beg forgiveness if you've done something wrong. Ask your old friend out for a meal. Return the CD which you borrowed from your neighbour 5 years ago. Bake your friend a cake.
Today.
"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." William Wordsworth
2 comments:
i can bake u a cake lor
are you tryin to hint me to bake u a cake??/
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