We have heard many times that man, modern society is self
centred. We spend money to entertain ourselves and do not care
about saving earth resources or welfare of other animals. We also
do not care about those living in the Thrid world countries.
However, we do donate and try to help through charitable efforts
but these are occasional helping. Most of our time, the average
people and rich people are meddling with our own stuff and thinking
of how to be richer.
I am from middle class and i do not have alot of money. When i work
in the future, i could get around 2000 or 3000 but i have no idea
of taking out 100 dollars to donate to poor and dying in
Africa.
I believe $100 donation would not affect me that much and i still
can have food and shelter. However, to tell u the truth, i have not
thought of donating this $100. Yes, i know that because of this
choice, a few poor kids has died again.
Even if i increase the donation to $300, i believe i still can
survive relatively ok. The downside is that i will have less saving
and if i have emergency cases in the future, then i may not have
the money to save myself. However, this is only a small probability
right and it has not happen yet. On the other hand, the kids in
poor countries are dying pretty sure if aid is not arrived.
The children and the weak is also at risk of being enslaved and
captured by criminals in their countries if aid is not issued. All
these is certainly happening while i am saving money for a possible
emergency that may arise in the future.
After writing so much for these poor people, i still have not
decided to donate money of few hundred bucks out of my salary. Is
it right for those, like me, and probably most of population to
save money for ourselves? Ok, lets not say few hundred bucks. Just
$50 ok per month.
Is selfishness ok? Seriously, i tell you, i know that there are
thousands of kids and poor adult who are moaning in pain and being
beaten right now in the world while i am studying for exam. As it
is not my body that is in pain, i do not really care that they are
beaten and suffering and I am not taking any action to try to stop
this common events. My mind will still be about finding a job and
thinking how to chase a girl.
This is selfishness, or self centredness whatever you call it.
However, i think we selfish people should still help people in the
end. Especially in coming up with good ideas to help solve
problems. Fund raising efforts are good but not efficient enough.
The key that we selfish people can do is to come up with good
ideas, ideas that will spread like wind and truly help the
disadvantage people. I know we are lazy people and want to enjoy
for ourselves but i think there is more we can contribute while
still listening to Jay chou music.
