Friday, February 27, 2015

Essay from Latvia


Charity for our feelings of wellbeing
                                                                                                                                            
            Charity nowadays is becoming a really meaningful thing in our everyday social life and especially for the poor ones. In life everyone has its ups and downs and when you have hit your rock bottom, you might receive charity from others. So mainly I want to answer two questions, first of what is charity, second of how we should use charity in our daily social life.
            Nowadays we are often involved in charity on daily basis, and frankly it’s growing to be a big and meaningful part of our life. There are many ways how we take part in charity, but we will discuss this later on. Now I want to write about a kind of charity where we donate stuff or money to people who are in need. I guess it’s very good feeling to make someone happy by doing just so little, like giving away clothes you won’t wear any more or donate some money that you have forgotten in your pocket. Well, to be honest, that meaningful feeling is only for a short period of time. So I guess to make this feeling last much longer you need to donate more stuff. And if I do this, I wonder where this is going to lead me in a long run. I expect nowhere good, also my good feelings will be long gone and I will end up broke, just to make me feel good. To sum this all up, you can’t materially help everyone who needs it just to make yourself feel a little better.
            When you have hit rock bottom in life, there is this hard feeling of shame, stress and so on, it becomes hard to ask someone for help. In spite of that there will always be someone willingly wanting to help you out by charity or donations. They do this because it makes them feel good. In my opinion it’s a two-way street: the one who gives help, feels good in this case and the other person feels bad because he feels he owes everything to a person who helped him out.
            In my opinion, charity is both giving and receiving. You can give others anything you have got, starting with money, clothes, old machines and ending with your free time, a nice smile or a friendly hug on a bad day. So it’s very easy to answer a question how we should use charity in our daily social life and make the feelings meaningful. We just need to start with supporting poor people more often with friendly gestures, like hugs, smile or friendly handshake. Also we can support them by donating our free time to them or others, like helping out in any way possible.
            In conclusion I can say that charity can make anyone happy, both the giver and receiver at the same time. You can start charity right now and it won’t cost you a dime, just give a friendly smile to someone who needs it and you both will feel a little bit better. And the best part is that you can’t run out of smiles.

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