Published on 12, July, 2020
In the past I've been very friendly, I gave money to homeless people and they always just want more and more and take advantage. Are there any genuinely good people in this world?
I don't claim to be a good person, but I am aspirational to be a better person.
Doing genuinely good works, seems to actaully require a fair bit of forethought and planning and is more difficult most times than being a bad person. And almost always genrates a negative profit..
Here's an example from my past: It's the middle of winter and I'm 42 years old sitting in my dads van, eating a sandwich whilst helping him do a job.
I see an old guy with a plastic bag going through the bins behind the shop minding his own business but extracting vegetables from the bins, and decide that I am consoiderablly better off than he is and maybe I could share my wealth a bit as I have a twenty in my wallet. I get it out and palm it, and get out of the car and go over for a littlle chat. Yeah, he's clearly a very poor older person managing as well as he can, and claims to be harvesting the vegetables for his rabbit. I chat with him for a couple of minutes and carefully drop the twenty into his vegetable bag without him noticing, then when the moment is right finish the chat, and return to the van.
Dear old dad is of course al over me when I get back asking why am I talking to that bloke, do I know him etc. So I tell him what I've just done. He pauses, lloks at me, and tells me that he's "never seen any good in me before that day"...
Just the way it goes I guess.
"The poor will always be with us".
I am so sorry your Dad's validation of you only at that point was so colored by covert disappointment. You still showed loving kindness to another and that can be the focus, even if the person receiving the kindness never knows from whence a boon comes they benefit and the giver benefits. As long as there are beggars there will benefactors. good on ya lad! I have always seen the good in you.