Case 1
One fine day, when you walking in the mall, some random girl just come out and says she's lost and it is the first time she came here, and she need to know where is the train station. So, i purposely bring her to the train station which i told her, "Don't worry, i just live across the station, which I'm not."
Case 2
Next thing is a lady told me she usually walks back home, but today her leg seems too hurt for her to walk, so she have to take a bus, and she's asking me for small change, $2.5. I look around, and i turn her down.
Case 3
A long lost friend of mine just randomly pop-up a message in Facebook saying, "Hiya, it's been a long time, are you studying in Australia?, Do you access to library database, cos i need to look for a book and wish u can help me out." Well, I said ok, then i start searching, but in the end i can't get what he wants. Well, at least i tried.
Case 4
A long lost xueji of mine just randomly pop-up a message in Facebook saying, "Hi, please vote for me I'm in a competition! " To be honest with you guys, I'm don't even know her. We get together because of xueji but I have no idea how many words i speak to her. At the end i voted.
Conclusion
All these things happen in real life. I just kinda put them together and try to get a linear or some positive relationship. And the conclusion is, I'm a Cheap Bastard. I helped people when they need a hand, but not the money. Meh, If i got a car, i would offer the poor lady to send her home but sometimes sympathy does not equals to charity.
Recently Macquarie Chinese People Society is raising fund for Yushu Earthquake victims and they set up a booth. When i walked passed and i saw some of them are chit-chating, playing iphones and stuff... I don't think they are serious with it. And it always makes me wonders how much actually will reach this poor people? We all do judge people by their first impression, and I do not think that they even feel sad for them.
And another thing i always wonder is... in 10 years, everyone gonna have a career, but will i just randomly pop-up a long lost SAM lawyer friends and say "Hiya, can you help me in this law case?" CHOI! CHOI CHOI!
Ok, will i randomly pop-up and ask discount from a friend that i don't really know to get me cheap concert tickets? Based on my personality, i really can't do these things that require a face that is as thick as a wall.
Anyway, you guys are always welcome to random pop-up, however no money issues involved.
Since it's about humanity, I might as well comment here.
ReplyDeleteYou see, like it or not this society we're living in, we're all are being taught to focus on our self-interest. That is what makes us tend to be self-centered.
Of course, some of us are able to be altruistic. But because of our self-interests, we hold up to a limit.
What I'm trying to say is (relating it more to ur context), the business (economic) world is the one that is totally indoctrinating us, thus it gives us our respective understanding of life. Because of scarcity, we have to compete and thus we dare not trust anyone.
Now commenting on the booth part - like I mentioned, people are more bounded by their self-interests than their social concerns. Maybe they go there to earn money. Yeah, I don't really trust most donations nowadays. E.g, how are you sure that 100% of the money from a donation will go to the victims of Haiti, Chile, China, etc.?
By the way, go visit http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com. Though the lectures and documentaries are long, you will see an eye-opening message in the movement. (Do have an open minded thinking when you view their videos.) Of course, it is related to what I'd commented to you here.
oh so kind of u. =)
ReplyDeletei'm not ejek u ah! haha
i like your kindness
bcoz i cant be somebody like that xp
Victor: I read ur blog, and i like your thoughts of life. We all are sensitive to things that is happening around us. Feel free to drop by anytime.
ReplyDeleteJoe-e: Well, I have nothing personal against her even I'm not close to her. haha. 助人为快乐之本.