I have tried to post a picture of lots of money and it's not working for some stupid reason so just forget it :/
So, what I wanted to talk about was rich people donating to charity just because they can. I know there are a lot of good-minded people who are rich but I feel like lots of people who get rich decide, suddenly, to donate to charity. It's like this:
"Oh, I got lots of money! I'm rich! What shall I do with all this cash? Hmm, I see lots of rich people who donate money to charity... sounds like a good way to get rid of this extra money! The rest I'll use to buy myself some brand-name items and large houses even though I only live with my two poodles / my husband and it's just the two of us / by myself / with my boyfriend / my son or daughter."
So, what is the point, huh? What is the point of your donation, Mr. Rich Person? Are you doing it because you care? Because now you suddenly care about the poor and the children with incurable diseases and the animals that are going extinct? Suddenly now that you're rich you decide to donate to charity? I would understand if you had been doing it before you got rich. Let me tell you about a true story that happened to the man who contributed to building my junior high and high school.
Once upon a time there was a young man who left closed Japan to go to the United States. He was called Joseph during his stay and he was passionate about Christianity that, at the time in Japan, was forbidden. He hoped to one day build a school that lived upon the Christian teachings.
One day, he is talking to a group of people about his passion to build a school in Japan that has Christian teachings as its base. He is older and wiser now and wants to return to Japan, now opened up to the world, and build the school of his dreams. After his talk, people begin to donate money to him for he has not one cent to even begin building the school.
Out of all the people he later tells of one old woman who came up to him. She was very frail and old but had a big heart. She had come a long way by train to go to his talks. She was very moved by his young passion and gives him all the money she has with her. It is actually the money for the train ride home. At first Joseph refuses. He can't take it, he says. But the old woman insists and shoves the money into his hands. She says she will walk home and tells him she is rooting for him. Before Joseph can say any more, the old woman begins to walk home and doesn't look back. Joseph could not forget her kindness. She who had nothing but the train fare gave it all to him so that he could make his dream come true. He vows to make her money worth it and soon when he returns to Japan, collects a group of like-minded people and creates a college.
My junior high and high school was named after him. The funny story was that he actually told his friends that if he dies, he does not want a school named after him. But they did it anyway because they respected him and wanted his legacy to live on.
Anyway, the point I want to make here is that people will respect you if you gave when you yourself had so little. THAT is generosity. Rich people giving just because they can is not generous. It's very selfish and arrogant. Those people are just saying, "Oh, look at me, I'm being very generous right now giving to charity! Look at how kind I am. You can respect me. Look, see?"
They are just doing it to make themselves look good. Shame on them. Of course, there are definitely rich people with a generous heart. But most of the time it is those who have so little that have the generous hearts. Unless of course someone who wins the lottery but gives it all over to charity then, that's different. That person can be respected because they gave all and left themselves nothing.
Well, that's the end of that.
See ya later, alligator.
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