Thread: Kony 2012

Originally Posted by proximus26

Why instead of promoting our self we just start doing good things to other people and never expect anything return and do not take credit for that?
I remember when I was small my grandfather (he lost his whole family during WWII, shoot on his eyes and left on the scene) help homeless guy (which was bit up by some punks) took him home, later to hospital and I ask him why he did that? I told him: "You don`t know him". He just smile and said-" Because this is right thing to do and leverage many not right things which were done to us. At least that`s what I can do"
OK, enough… I got little angry… but I will not stop be good person….

+1.

Before WW2, my grandmother was rich. Loaded would be a better term.
Then during WW2, food prices went through the roof. They of course still had food. Some stuff was rationed but if you could afford it you could eat.
Other people could not. Her neighbors were litterally down to feeding their kids with grass. And they were not the exception.
So my grandmother started buying more and more food, giving it away. A sizable percentage of the village I grew up in owes their life to my grandmother.

After the war, most of the money was gone. She had literally spent a forune on food, feeding countless mouths. The only reason she wasn't poor was that by the time most of the money was gone, the war had ended, and she started with a really big pile of it.

Not all people were like her. Not by far. She never much talked about the war except the everyday stuff (like having to dim lights at night etc), but to my mother she once explained that people came asking for food, and she could not even consider turning them away. Helping was the decent thing to do, regardless of the fact that it would cost her almost everything. If she hadn't, my parents would have been rich, but we all think she made the right choice.

She taught me that you can only help people by helping people.
Holding on to your posessions and yammering that there is injustice and that someone should do something... that is not helping people or making a difference. That is just being selfish and trying to make yourself feel good. Talking about helping is not helping. Helping is helping.

And the vast majority of the people liking the facebook status is not helping.
They're talking about helping.